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    How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide
    How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide
    How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide
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    How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide

    By Pamela Miller

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    How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide will dance poetry lovers away to places you never knew poems could go. This fifth collection from Chicago poet Pamela Miller (author of Recipe for Disaster and Miss Unthinkable) is a constantly surprising jamboree of surreal situations ("She has teeth inside her teeth inside her teeth"), wildly inventive wordplay ("We're the muck-it-up bungle-thumbs failure brigade"), and zany humor ("When the going gets tough, the tough yell "FOGHORN!").Yet as poet Ralph Hamilton (Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail) says, "Beneath their surface pleasures, these poems resonate with Miller's generous and exuberant delight in our weird and wounded humanity."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnsolicited Press
    Release dateMay 14, 2024
    ISBN9798224032426
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      Book preview

      How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide - Pamela Miller

      HOW TO DO

      THE GREASED WOMBAT SLIDE

      Poems by Pamela Miller

      HOW TO DO THE GREASED WOMBAT SLIDE

      Copyright © 2024 Pamela Miller

      All Rights Reserved.

      Published by Unsolicited Press.

      First Edition.

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. People, places, and notions in these poems are from the author’s imagination; any resemblance to real persons or events is purely coincidental.

      ––––––––

      For information contact:

      Unsolicited Press

      Portland, Oregon

      www.unsolicitedpress.com

      orders@unsolicitedpress.com

      619-354-8005

      Cover Design: Kathryn Gerhardt

      Editor: Summer Stewart

      ISBN: 978-1-963115-99-4

      This book is for Richard

      and for Louise Miller, Bob and Kathy Chwedyk,

      and Barbara Swift Brauer

      Poems

      Poems

      HOW TO DANCE

      How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide

      Ten Facts About the Author

      That May or May Not Be True

      My Husband the Science Fiction Writer

      Tells Me About His Childhood

      Pay No Attention

      The Burning Questions of Poetry

      Autobiography Written in Disappearing Ink

      Poems from Three Sherwin-Williams Paint Colors

      Mating Dance

      Why I Don’t Write Haiku

      My Incandescent Past

      Sea Chantey

      Henry Fonda: An Erasure Biography

      Ballet in Five Acts

      What Poetry Is

      Makeovers by Fatima

      Trompe L’Oeil

      HOW TO LOVE

      Things I’ve Learned About Love

      The Jealous Lover Puts On Her Makeup for Hell

      Self-Portrait with Clip Art

      Naked on Easter Sunday

      Love Letter to My Favorite Ghost

      What I Mean When I Talk About Poetry

      Love Song Written After Viewing an Exhibit of

      Erotic Art by Women

      Ruthanne Replants Herself

      Double Love Song, with Toads

      Going Out to Lunch with Emily Dickinson

      How Love Poems Get Written

      Moving Day

      Love Song Written on the Last Night of Summer

      HOW TO ENDURE

      Prayer to Four Gods, Because One Is No Longer Enough

      Seeing Sweden the Hard Way

      Beauty at Sixty-Five

      Invoking the Muse at Sixty-Five

      Contemplating the Future at Sixty-Five

      The Goddess Visits Me in a Dream

      and Orders Me to Join the Resistance

      This Poem Is Not for You

      The Spaghetti Squash Comes to Visit

      Words to the Unwise

      How to Waste Time Looking Things Up

      on the Internet

      Snapshots from My Nightmares

      On Learning That One of My Books Was Found

      Among a Dead Poet’s Possessions

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