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    Days of a Chameleon: Collected Poems
    Days of a Chameleon: Collected Poems
    Days of a Chameleon: Collected Poems
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    Days of a Chameleon: Collected Poems

    By Jeffrey DeLotto

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    From Jim Bowie preparing to die at the Alamo to a dung beetle rolling home, from mallard ducks in tweed to a church-goer afraid to be found, from snakeskins to serial killers, oods to grey foxes, Je rey DeLottos poems nd light and darkness, calm and storm, ant and Arab suq equally fascinating. Taking his title from Keats ideal of a poet as chameleon, DeLotto inhabits the world large and small in these collected poems, seeing empathy as the essence of understanding.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJun 20, 2007
    ISBN9781465317544
    Days of a Chameleon: Collected Poems
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    Jeffrey DeLotto

    Jeffrey DeLotto teaches and has taught writing and British literature at Texas Wesleyan University, Texas Tech University, Irbid University (in Jordan), and the University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria. His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, and he has published Voices at the Door (the Southwest Poets Series winner), Days of a Chameleon: Collected Poems, and Voices Writ in Sand: Dramatic Monologues and Other Poems, along with his historical novel, A Caddo’s Way, from Lamar University Literary Press. He is also a grower of herbs and vegetables, a sometime goatherd, and skipper on the mutinous family sailboat.

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