Begging for Vultures

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ISBN: 9780826350183 | 0826350186
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Copyright: 8/15/2011

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The poetry of Lawrence Welsh crosses many borders, from South Central Los Angeles, where he was raised, to El Paso, where he has lived for almost twenty years. A newspaper man turned poet, a punk rock songwriter who became an English teacher, an Irishman at home in Texas, Welsh gives voice to the famous, the infamous, and the forgotten.

Foreword	p. xi
New Poems
New Corn Dance	p. 3
El Paso Poem	p. 4
Ramon's	p. 5
Dead Coyote	p. 6
Beyond Bosque	p. 7
To the Stone Hunters	p. 8
For Hart Crane	p. 9
Coyote at Fabens	p. 10
Before Mesa	p. 11
The Buffalo Figurine	p. 12
Old Crow	p. 13
Yandell's Room	p. 14
Barry Mills	p. 15
Leaves	p. 16
Cuchillo	p. 17
Easter	p. 18
Raven/Taos	p. 19
East of Albuquerque	p. 20
Juarez-Again	p. 21
Eastside's Calvario	p. 23
Coal Trane	p. 24
Gersh Driver	p. 25
A Bosque Hanging	p. 27
Preparing for Maximus	p. 31
Gambler's Blend	p. 32
Gambler's Guitar	p. 33
Outing Vegas	p. 34
Larks	p. 35
'48 Plymouth	p. 36
1959	p. 37
When the Pogues Came to Town	p. 38
South Central Serenade	p. 39
Angel Dust	p. 40
East Hollywood Hotdog Stand	p. 41
One for Prez	p. 42
Blue's Beach	p. 43
The King of Mountain Soul	p. 44
Feed the Messenger as Well	p. 46
For Longshot O'Leary	p. 47
After the Great Hunger	p. 48
New Irish Whiskey	p. 51
The Death of Coolaholiga	p. 52
Coolaholiga Rising	p. 54
Begging for Vultures	p. 56
The Birds are Flying Over	p. 58
From Skull Highway (2008)
New Medicine Stick	p. 63
Adobe	p. 64
Fallen Ladders	p. 65
Paper Lantern	p. 66
Gone Rattler	p. 67
Swift Horse: A Blessing	p. 68
Norton Flats	p. 69
Milagros	p. 70
Skull Highway	p. 71
The Eve	p. 72
Reverb Machines	p. 73
The Dancing Stranglers	p. 74
New Year's Eve, 1978	p. 75
Culver's End	p. 76
Troubadour West	p. 77
Kiva Bones	p. 78
Penitente Morada de Taos	p. 79
A Light	p. 80
For Robert Peters	p. 84
The Crucifix Upstairs	p. 85
Abandoned Morada, 1990	p. 86
In the Desert Dead Things Go Away Quickly	p. 87
From Walking Backwards to Santa Fe (2007)
Anniversary of Another Life	p. 91
On the 15th Anniversary of My Father's Death	p. 92
Hickory Wind	p. 94
The Shadows of St. Francis	p. 95
Mine Tours	p. 96
The Elbo Room/Guadalupe	p. 97
El Pantalón Rosa	p. 98
Elegy	p. 99
Been Sleeping in the Desert	p. 100
Lost	p. 101
Westwood Walk	p. 102
J. Geils in Inglewood	p. 103
Bunny Berrigan Loses His Chops	p. 104
Santa Fe: 2001	p. 105
Montez de Santa Fe	p. 106
For My Daughter	p. 107
Letting Go	p. 108
From Believing in Bonfires (2003)
Butterfly Girl	p. 111
El Paso Saddleblanket Company	p. 112
Memo to Kell	p. 113
Corner	p. 114
Bowen's	p. 115
Desert Rats	p. 116
New Irish Harmonica	p. 117
The Doolin Drag	p. 119
First Mescaline: Inglewood '77	p. 120
South Central Serenade: 7	p. 121
When We Were Kings	p. 122
Quarter Moon Quartet	p. 124
Wolf and Skull	p. 125
Playland	p. 126
Dawn	p. 127
Mexican Canyon Trestle	p. 128
Flying Burrito #1	p. 129
Believing in Bonfires	p. 130
From New Shouts at Broken Dreams (2001)
Sweet Medicine	p. 134
Desert Coyote	p. 135
The Queen of Odessa	p. 136
La Calavera	p. 137
From a Buick 6-Revisited	p. 139
Nowhere Train	p. 140
Cockfighter	p. 141
Fading the White Line	p. 142
Juarez Wild Card	p. 143
Myth	p. 144
The Final Night	p. 145
Stalled Avenue	p. 146
Dealer's Choice	p. 147
The Balinese	p. 148
Surf '96	p. 150
Encinitas	p. 151
Newport Line	p. 152
From Rusted Steel and Bordertown Starts (1999)
Airstream	p. 155
El Paso the Hard Way	p. 156
Back Door Poets	p. 157
Desert Variation	p. 158
When ZZ Came to Town	p. 159
Drover	p. 160
Peasant Hands Everywhere	p. 161
Maybe	p. 162
Gasoline Row	p. 163
Ghost of El Paso	p. 164
Outside Gallup	p. 165
Crazy Horse	p. 166
Border Patrols	p. 167
Candy	p. 168
E.P.T.	p. 169
Gold on the Wire	p. 170
The Canonization of Freddy Fender	p. 171
Sleepwalkers	p. 172
On the Death of Townes Van Zandt	p. 173
Fast Eddie	p. 174
Greatest Hits: Ray Price and His Cherokee Cowboys	p. 175
Night of the Iguana	p. 176
Two Step the Night	p. 177
Fuels	p. 177
The Salsa of Today	p. 179
The Red Road	p. 180
Rusted Steel and Bordertown Starts	p. 181
From Lenny Bruce in El Paso (1997)
Outlaw X	p. 185
Road Dogs	p. 186
Ink	p. 187
Lenny Bruce in El Paso	p. 188
Lefty and Me	p. 189
The Girls of the Wrecking Yard	p. 191
The Ghosts of San Juan	p. 191
About the Author	p. 195
Acknowledgments	p. 197
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