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    Coming to Grips with White Knuckles
    Coming to Grips with White Knuckles
    Coming to Grips with White Knuckles
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    Coming to Grips with White Knuckles

    By Paul Cameron Brown

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Coming to Grips with White Knuckles - Paul Cameron Brown

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Coming to Grips with White Knuckles, by

      Paul Cameron Brown

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      Title: Coming to Grips with White Knuckles

      Author: Paul Cameron Brown

      Release Date: January 14, 2010 [EBook #30948]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMING TO GRIPS WITH WHITE KNUCKLES ***

      Produced by Sorour Imani.

      COMING TO GRIPS WITH WHITE KNUCKLES

      By

      Paul Cameron Brown

      Published in 1982 by Williams-Wallace

      229 College Street, Toronto M5T 1R4, Canada

      ©1982 Paul Cameron Brown

      All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced,

      transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,

      photocopying, recording or otherwise or stored in a retrieval system

      without prior consent of the publisher is an infringement of the

      copyright law.

      Published with the generous assistance of The Canada Council and the

      Ontario Arts Council.

      ISBN 0-88795-018-3

      Printed and Bound in Canada.

      Credits

      Many of these poems have been published in:

      Bogg (USA)

      Wyrd (USA)

      Germination

      The Antigonish Review

      Writers' News Manitoba

      Pierian Spring

      South Western Ontario Poetry

      Repository

      Poetic Licence

      Writers' Quarterly

      Poetry North Review (USA)

      Minor Offences

      Gut

      Sepia (UK)

      When Is A Poem (companion issue, League of Canadian Poets)

      Konkrete

      Wot

      Jimson Weed (USA)

      The Camrose Review

      Interior Voice

      The Atlanta Creative Alliance (USA)

      Yellow Silk (USA)

      Earthwise Poetry Journal (USA)

      Authors

      The Pegasus Review (USA)

      Toute est dangereuse, tout est necéssaire.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      KING AND JOHN STREETS

      (FOR ISABELLA VACANCY CRAWFORD)

      When the shadows are hungry

      animals on walls

      and theatre goers are

      parliamentarians engaged

      in a repast or feast

      of words.

      the lone house stands

      as a stone shard or sliver

      about to disengage itself

      from the eye.

      For behind boulders of tenement

      walls and vines creeping

      to match the red

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