Incident at Thompson Slough: A Poem in 9 Parts Where the Best Intentions Unravel

Incident at Thompson Slough: A Poem in 9 Parts Where the Best Intentions Unravel

English, Creative Writing

"Subtitle from publisher's website. Publishers website lists pagination as 28 pages. ""Commissioned by the Salt Lake Acting Company, & performed during the 2002 Winter Olympics""--T.p. verso. Octabo. Single-signature, sewn into purple wraps and with an illustrated light blue dust jacket printed in colors. Woodcuts by the publisher, Paul Hunter. ""Text handset in Italian Old Style, with titling in Goudy Bold; run on Mohawk Superfine through a 1904 C&P 8x12 treadle press, softbound in Canson Mi-Teintes papers, with maple woodcuts, & hardbound labels of Larroque paper, budding into the timely exuberance of spring.""--Colophon

Incident is a snapshot of a small town on a rather extraordinary afternoon. It begins innocently enough with an old man, Ollie McDougald, who finds his car will not start on S&H Green Stamps day. His nephew-by-marriage convinces him to ride his bicycle to the grocery store.--P. 37, ""Flying Pontiacs, miracle cures, killer chihuahuas, and land barons: David Lee's small town epics and elegies"" / by Professor Neil Harrison"

Lee, David

Wood Works

2002

"[24] p.: ill.; 19 cm.

Denison's copy is no. 141 of 506 copies."

English

35108007112519

DEN Spec Coll N7433.4.L44 .I53 2002