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    Sugar Run Road
    Sugar Run Road
    Sugar Run Road
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    Sugar Run Road

    By Ed Ochester

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    In his eigth full-length collection of poetry, Ochester is at his best: straight-forward and tender, he views the world with no illusions and a great deal of compassion.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAutumn House Press
    Release dateApr 5, 2021
    ISBN9781637680179
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      Sugar Run Road - Ed Ochester

      sugar run road

      Ed Ochester

                                   pittsburgh

      Copyright © 2015 by Ed Ochester

      All rights reserved. No part of this book can be reproduced in any form whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews or essays. For information contact: Autumn House Press, 5530 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15206.

      Autumn House and Autumn House Press are registered trademarks owned by Autumn House Press, a nonprofit corporation whose mission is the publication and promotion of poetry and other fine literature.

      Autumn House Press receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

      ISBN: 978-1-938769-01-6

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014946840

      All Autumn House books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the international standards for permanent books intended for purchase by libraries.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-63768-017-9 (electronic)

      contents

      goldberg variations

      Steel City

      Even As I Write This

      Messages

      The Telephones

      Granddaughter, Age Four

      Time Capsule

      Poetry

      The Damnation of New Jersey

      My First Teaching Job, Boston University Night School, Intro to Lit

      Dr. Zoot & the Suits Play on the Lawn for the 5th Annual Oldies Concert at St. Andrews Nursing Home in Indiana, PA

      Letter to Edward Field

      Conan the Librarian

      That Time

      The Death of Hemingway

      Karaoke Night at the Serbian Club, South Side, Pittsburgh a haiku

      Google It

      An Evening with Gerald Stern

      Goldberg Variations

      riding westward

      Born to Sing

      Riding Westward

      Beatles on the Juke

      Myer Country Motel

      Hambone

      Ross Gay

      Michael Waters

      Ancient Music

      Family Reunion

      Sunflowers

      Market Report

      new year

      Connect the Dots

      Early Morning, Writers’ Conference

      Epistle to the Minipolitans

      Diamond Sutra

      Hi Gertrude

      D.H. Lawrence Update

      September Rain

      Fall

      New Year

      Dialectic

      At the Farm Store

      At a Country Diner

      What You Should Know about the Emperor Nero

      A Little Avant-Garde

      Emails from and to Afaa Weaver

      Bluebird

      For Britt

      Acknowledgments

      goldberg variations

      steel city

      change is the great subject of poetry

      and speed I would add        I envy

      the poets of New York so many

      weird people to see and shops to name

      restaurants in which to meet other poets

      and complain about overpriced borscht

      and I am a New Yorker by birth

      living in exile not like Catullus

      who was bitter about it but in a city

      that boasts The Original Hot Dog Shop

      (the secret of its great fries:    molten lard)

      not too far from a real carousel with

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