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6" x 8"
60 pages

Published by Prescott Street Press
Portland, Oregon

Cover by Don Gray

OFF THE MAIN ROAD:
Poems
with drawings by Don Gray

Pushcart Prize Poem, "Forgive Us…"

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"...a first collection of poems that reflects his immediate concern with a world close at hand. His plants,animals, weather, rivers, birds, and people help him—-and all of us—-make some kind of sense out of the experience of living. Don Gray's five pencil drawings also have their origin in a local geography, but are rich in universal implications."
              —Vi Gale, Publisher, Prescott Street Press

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$20 (+ $3 s/h)
CLOTH HARDBACK
First Printing (1978)
Limited Edition of 100 copies
signed/numbered by author and artist
ISBN: 0-915986-09-4

$5 (+ $3 s/h)
PAPERBACK
First Printing—SOLD OUT
Second Printing (1979)—400 copies
NOT signed or numbered
ISBN: 0-915986-10-8

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I
Fall Dance     3
Setting Backfire     4
Tomato     6
Vulture     7
Osprey     8
Visitors in March     10
Spring Storm     12
Birthday Hike: Glass Hill     13
Words     14
Family Walk     15
Calling Unheard of Names     16

II
Watching the Janitor     21
First Snow, Wet Wool     22
Song for Carpenters after Summer     23
Poem Against the First Grade     24
Walking Too Early in Hells Canyon     26
The Non-Conference Champions     27
Morning Song for Symphonic Conductors     28
Poem for My Brother's Birthday     30

III
Keeping the Wolf Away     35
Directions for Visitors     36
Bird Talk     38
Deliverance     39
Split Kindling     40
Sawdust Heap     41
Early Morning: Washington 12 Toward Ohanapecosh     42
Forgive Us…     44
Inviting Alex to the Bees     46
Report on Grandparents' House     47


IV
Note for Travelers     51
Athol, Rathdrum, the Idaho Line     52
Brakeman's Vision: Bear Springs     54
Northwest Tomato Growers     55
Panhandler Headed South on 95     56
Homily in Palouse     57
How to Live Two Days in Osborn, Idaho     58
Off the Main Road     60