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whojogsjust down the road/with apistolfor coyotes.Atthe same time,it is ethereal,entering poems visited by angels andbiblical cadences and scriptural tones.Indeed,it is everywhere.Poch creates this landscape and its people with skill and beauty,ina voice that combines wisdom and humor,enlivening a book that isajoy to read.  \n-GRACE SCHULMAN,Without a Claim  \nLike the staked plains,dry-land,long view man he praises in onepoem,John Poch knows the harsh beauty of Texas,and in this newcollection he gives us a plural,abundant portrait of his belovedplace.Here are prose poems,sonnets,villanelles,and all the endur-ing pleasures of formalverse,brought back down to earth by Poch’sunflinching eye,and his hard-won knowledge of work,and people,and the past.Texases is a kind of psalter,full of graceful and movinglove songs to the land.  \n-PATRICK PHILLIPS,Elegyfor a Broken Machine  \n# TEXASES\n\nhttps://archive.org/details/texasespoems0000poch  \nWordFarm  \n334 Lakeside Ave S,\\#207Seattle,WA98144www.wordfarm.netinfo@wordfarm.net  \nCopyright ◎2019 by John Poch  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or other-wise,without the express permission of WordFarm.  \nUSA ISBN-13:978-1-60226-022-1USA ISBN-10:1-60226-022-2  \nPrinted in the United States of AmericaCover Design:Andrew CraftFirst Edition:2019  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nNames:Poch,John,1966-author  \nTitle:Texases/John Poch.  \nDescription:First edition.|Seattle,Washington :WordFarm,[2019]|Identifiers:LCCN 2018055905(print)|LCCN 2019000596(ebook)|ISBN9781602264298(ebook)|ISBN1602264295(ebook)|ISBN9781602260221(pbk.)|ISBN1602260222(pbk.)  \nSubjects:LCSH:Texas--Poetry.  \nClassification:LCC PS3616.028(ebook)|LCC PS3616.028 T49  \n2019(print)|DDC 811/.6--dc23  \nLC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018055905  \nP10987654321  \nY242322212019  \n# ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\n\nAgni:“In the Backyard after the Dust Storm,Meditating onParadise”  \nAlabama Literary Review:“Ransom Canyon”  \nAmerica:“The Rio Grande(South)”  \nBirmingham Poetry Review:“Windy Day in Flower Mound”  \nBlackbird:“Independence Creek”  \nBliss:“Metaphors of Lubbock”  \nThe City:“Psalm in a Desert Place”  \nThe Common(online):“God in the Shape of Texas”  \nThe Cresset:“The Neighbor”and“Our Flesh”  \nEcotone:“Late Afternoon at the Junction Rodeo”  \nGettysburg Review:“The Gate”  \nGrey:“Texas”  \nThe Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review:“Love Creek”  \nHarvard Review:“Lubbock,1955”  \nHayden's Ferry Review:“Mason Mountain”  \nInk&Letters:“Horses and Sawhorses”  \nThe James Dickey Review:“Playing Hello Kitty Bingo Before theMerit Committee Meeting”  \nJuked:“Texas Hollywood”  \nLinebreak:“Off the Grid”and“The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader”  \nThe Nation:“The County Seat of Presidio County”  \n# The New Republic:“The Llano River”\n\nNorth 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