The Ufos of October: 5 Poem Cycles

By Robert Bove

Who isn't an alien?

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 29, 2003
• ISBN: 9780595747245

Robert Bove

Robert Bové's work has appeared online at National Review and The Wall Street Journal and in print at Exquisite Corpse, among dozens of other publications. He is an adjunct assistant professor in English at Pace University in Manhattan.

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

GRINGOS

HAVE ANOTHER

GREEN SHADOW

THE COLONEL, WHOSE WARM BROWN EYES

GETTING IT RIGHT FOR THE COLONEL

BE READY AT 10

WIPING THE MOUTH OF GRAVITY

GR INGOS II

HOUSE HOLD

ROAD SCAPE

CUBIC ACRES

HORSE ROCK

MOON TALKS

WINDOWS

FREE HOLD

THE UNWELCOME

VENUSBURG

BOARDWALK, VENICE BEACH

EARLIER, AT THE NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR,

1939

TO A DANCER

HONEY

WHEN SHE WAS A GIRL

LOTUS DOLLAR

COMPENSATORY DAMAGES

EXPLORATORY SESSION

I ASKED HER IF WE HAD A FUTURE

SPEED UP——TURTLE ON HIGHWAY

NIGHT LIGHT

AFTER IMAGE

ASIDE

DAWN CREW

POEM AT DIAPHANOUS HOTEL

EVANGEL

COMFORT

PACIFICO’S DREAM

PONTIFAX

AFTER NOON IN NEW TEA HOUSE TENT

MOMENTARY GODS

CRACKING UP

CONFLAG

PACIFICO’S RAGE

MEMORY

STAR MAP

TUNNEL BURB

CONSIGNMENTS

LANDING PAD

LEGENDS

VEHICLES

NOW

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Acknowledgments

Poems in this Book. have been published in:

Sniper Logic (U. of Colo.): Gringos, Green Shadow, The Colonel..., Getting It Right for the Colonel, Be Ready at 10, "Gringos

II";

Louisiana Review (LSU): Wiping the Mouth of Gravity, Horse Rock, Moon Talks, Free Hold, The Unwelcome, Boardwalk, Venice Beach, To a Dancer;

Aphros (Pace U.): Cubic Acres, Moon Talks, Pacifico’s Dream; Giants Play Well in the Drizzle: Poem at Diaphanous Hotel;

Americas Review (and a finalist in their 1998 poetry award competition):Have Another;

Jejune: america eats its young: Lotus Dollar, Sniff Sniff, Compensatory Damages;

Poetry Motel: Getting It Right for the Colonel, Have Another;

Lungfull!: Wiping the Mouth of Gravity;

The Temple: Horse Rock;

Heel Tap: Free Hold, The Unwelcome;

One Trick Pony: Now;

Will Work for Peace: New Political Poems, an anthology: Now;

loco*motive press: the cycle Short Story as a chapbook entitled River

Edge, 1951.

The Texas Mercury. Cubic Acres in its entirety.

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The title Momentary Gods, the fourth cycle in this book, was inspired by Edward Dorn in conversation about these poems. and other often more interesting things in a restaurant in Manhattan in October 1997, his final trip to NYC. Momentary Gods is a category in Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion & Ethics.

This book is dedicated to Gae.

The UFOs of October

out of Central America 1978

In the fall of 1978, I was an outreach worker for Monticello Community Action Agency, based in Charlottesville, Va., assessing low-income seniors in nearby Nelson County for heating fuel, home repairs, companionship, food. A friend who worked for American News Service, a two-man shop a few hours north in Shepherdstown, W.Va.,