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    Lost and Certain of It
    Lost and Certain of It
    Lost and Certain of It
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    Lost and Certain of It

    By Bryce Milligan

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    Lost and Certain of It is a genre-blending collection of Bryce Milligan's poetry and music. Travelling from Texas to New Orleans and from funerals to bus stops, these lyrical and imaginative writings cross back and forth between prose, poetry, and music, resulting in a deeply personal collection of thoughts on music, art, and life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWings Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2006
    ISBN9781609400996
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      Book preview

      Lost and Certain of It - Bryce Milligan

      some other works by Bryce Milligan

      poetry

      Daysleepers & Other Poems (1984)

      Litany Sung at Hell’s Gate (1990)

      From Inside the Tree (1990)

      Working the Stone (1993)

      Alms for Oblivion: A Poem in Seven Parts (2003)

      young adult fiction

      Battle of the Alamo (1990, 1999)

      Comanche Captive (1990, 2005)

      Lawmen: Stories of Men Who Tamed the West (1994)

      With the Wind, Kevin Dolan (1987)

      Kevin Dolan (German ed., 1994)

      children’s books

      Brigid’s Cloak: An Ancient Irish Story (2002)

      The Prince of Ireland

      and the Three Magic Stallions (2003)

      books edited

      ¡Floricanto Sí! A Collection of Latina Poetry (1998)

      Daughters of the Fifth Sun: A Collection of Latina

      Fiction and Poetry (1995)

      Lost and Certain of It

      © 2006 by Bryce Milligan

      First printing, 2006

      Second printing, 2008

      Print Edition ISBN: 1899179992

      ePub ISBN: 978-1-60940-099-6

      Kindle ISBN: 978-1-60940-100-9

      Library PDF ISBN: 978-1-60940-101-6

      Print edition published by Aark Arts

      Sudeep Sen, Publisher • 65 Greenford Road

      Harrow HA1 3QF • London, England

      Ebooks published by Wings Press

      627 E. Guenther • San Antonio, TX 78210

      The printed edition and Ebooks

      are distributed by

      Independent Publishers Group

      (www.ipgbook.com)

      Front page photo by the author, taken in the woods behind Robert Frost’s farm in Derry, New Hampshire. Illustration on page 27 from an etching by the author. Author photo on page 39 is by Bruce Jordan, and is used by permission of the artist.

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Foreword, by Sudeep Sen

      Author’s Note

      Lost and Certain of It

      Lost and certain of it

      Summers in the country

      Wild mustard

      The silence inside the city

      Where were you

      Trying not to fall

      Five years gone

      His last pocketknife

      Visiting the painter lady

      Reading Victoria’s secrets

      Instructions for the funeral

      Monuments

      Water’s rising

      Revising a story among wolves

      Between one crack and another

      Lightning

      Metaphor

      Stone conundrums

      She sets the pace

      Songs

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