About
I originally published this book in Palo Alto in August 1979. It was a cutout; I took the original pamphlet, cut out the text, and pasted in my eighteen typewritten poems.
Acknowledgements
You Don’t Say, Fourteenth Annual Commencement Booklet, California State College, Sonoma, Friday 23 May 1975; The River, Open Hand (2nd May) 1973; End of the Rainbow, Open Hand (May) 1973; You and I on the Road to the Sea, Back Roads: Mind / Body Issue, No. 7 (Spr-Sum 1975).
My title, format, and illustrations are from a pamphlet published by the Norton Company, Worcester, Mass.
You may email tom/AT/liztomsharp/DOT/-c-o-m-/ to share comments on this work.
—Tom Sharp, Seattle
Copyright © 1979, 2015 by Tom Sharp
Links and shortcuts
In any page, you can click on or touch links to jump around in this book.
- Each entry in the contents links to the poem.
- The title for a poem links back to the contents, highlighting the entry for the poem.
- Words in the headers and footers link to the index, the contents, a listing of books by the author, to this page, and to the previous and next poems in the book.
You may find the following keyboard equivalents to be convenient. Here I use the symbol ⌥ for the option key on Mac/OS or the alt key on Windows, ⇧ for the shift key, and ⏎ for the return (enter) key. Arrow keys are ◄ (left), ► (right), ▲ (up), and ▼ (down).
Context | Keys | Jump to / Behavior |
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cover | ⌥ ◄ | Books by Tom Sharp |
⌥ ▲ | About Tom Sharp | |
⌥ ► | about this book (this page) | |
⌥ ▼ | title page | |
⇧ ⌥ ▼ | contents | |
title page | ⌥ ◄ | cover |
⌥ ▲ | About Tom Sharp | |
⌥ ► | about this book (this page) | |
⌥ ▼ | contents | |
⇧ ⌥ ▼ | contents | |
contents | ⇧ ⌥ ▲ | cover |
⇧ ⌥ ► | about this book (this page) | |
⌥ ▼ | select the next item in the contents | |
⌥ ▲ | select the previous item in the contents | |
⌥ ► | open the selected page | |
⌥ ⏎ | open the selected page | |
poem | ⇧ ⌥ ▲ | cover |
⌥ ◄ | contents | |
⌥ ▲ | open the previous page | |
⌥ ▼ | open the next page |