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    Roadworthy
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    Roadworthy

    By Dave Mehler

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    In Roadworthy, poet Dave Mehler offers readers the bizarre and unique opportunity to view the world through the lens of a "hauling witness" -- a long-haul truck driver in the US and a short line (or regional) truck driver in Colorado/Wyoming and the Pacific Northwest. The poems relate experiences in narrative and lyric based from life a

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAubade Publishing
    Release dateDec 15, 2020
    ISBN9781951547134
    Roadworthy
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    Dave Mehler

    David Mehler lives in Newberg, Oregon, moving there with wife and kids in the late 1990s, to take over ownership of Oregon's longest running independent coffeehouse. He is the editor of the literary journal, TRIGGERFISH CRITICAL REVIEW. His chapbook, GOD TRUCK NATURE appeared in the chapbook anthology, BURNING GORGEOUS: SEVEN 21st CENTURY POETS, edited by Pamela O'Shaughnessy (2010). He began serving on the board of the Oregon Poetry Association in the fall of 2019. He is currently at work revising a manuscript of prose poems pertaining to his job as a truck driver for a landfill not far from Portland.

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