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Devils & Islands
Devils & Islands
poems
TURNER CASSITY
Swallow Press / Ohio University Press
Athens
Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
© 2007 by Turner Cassity
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved
Swallow Press / Ohio University Press books
are printed on acid-free paper
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The poems listed appeared first in the following periodicals:
“Before Clocks Were Digital”: Washington Square “Fashions of 1903”: Southwest Review “Crystal But Not Crystal Ball” and “Afterward”: The New Criterion “The Passion of 1934”: Atlanta Review
I express my appreciation to Mike Haecker for trying to improve my
computer literacy in the preparation of this volume.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cassity, Turner.
Devils and islands : poems / Turner Cassity.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8040-1102-0 (acid-free paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8040-1102-8 (acid-free paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8040-1103-7 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8040-1103-6 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
I. Title.
PS3553.A8D48 2007
811'.54—dc22
2007000333
“I wonder who began this treating of
people as fellow creatures,” said Charlotte.
“It is never a success.”
—I. Compton Burnett,
Manservant and Maidservant
Contents
Bargains Are by Definition Faustian
Robinson Crusoe to Capt. Dreyfus
Where Is Gutzon Borglum Now That We Need Him?
The Last Elevator Operator, or, Mr. Otis Regrets
Edith and Woody and Nancy and Ronnie
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