num_pages: 80
description: Shelton says of his "I consider myself a regionalist and a surrealist. I have lived in the desert for ten years and hope that my work reflects that fact." In the forty-seven poems in this collection the poet moves backward and forward through time but always in the same landscape, the desert-mountains of southern Arizona, which foster his surrealistic view of his interior conflict. He is followed by peculiarly insistent voices from the past.
language: English
title: The Tattooed Desert
titlecomplete: The Tattooed Desert (Pitt Poetry Series)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 23
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press