Title: I Hear the Coyote
Subtitle: Selected Poems 1960-1980
Description: From the Author's Afterword: "... The stream flows, just as existence flows. At the crest of a ripple, a standing wave in the current, I offer this cluster of sayings. As I remarked in another preface twenty-five years ago, the individual poems are "...based on real things and experiences, for otherwise what would be their purpose?" The decades which generated the verses contained in *I Hear the Coyote* are now far behind me, though in some ways the interval which has passed seems no more than momentary. For a time yet, perhaps, the miracle of awareness continues to allow me to work at my art. When Coyote gives on a strong suggestion, after all, *one does not think to count horses* nor to dispute the advice thus given. I cannot hold with those who roll their eyes, shake their heads, and utter the traditional pronunciamento, 'Whatever Coyote tells you, do the opposite.' Bill Hotchkiss, Woodpecker Ravine, October 17, 2002"
Subjects: poetry