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    Detonation
    Detonation
    Detonation
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    Detonation

    By R. J. Keeler

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    Mr. Keeler began writing in 1970 under the direction of Guy Owen. Detonation, his first book of poetry, contains poems from over thirty years of writing. His eclectic style ranges over traditional forms (sonnets, villanelles, sestinas) to less formal arrangements, and in content from science to silliness to love and death. His writing tends to be distinct from many academic or MFA writers, for whom he has a mild disdain.
    Mr. Keeler has been published in over sixty literary journals and has won (or been named a finalist in) several contests and awards. He is currently completing the set of poems for his second book of poetry.
    Mr. Keeler currently lives on Vashon Island, Washington. He is a minor Luddite, thus can only be can be contacted by email at detonation@alumni.duke.edu.
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    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJan 15, 2020
    ISBN9781725257061
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    R. J. Keeler

    R. J. Keeler was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in the jungles of Colombia. He holds a BS in Mathematics from North Carolina State University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, an MBA from University of California at Los Angeles, and a Certificate in Poetry from the University of Washington. An Honorman in the U.S. Naval Submarine School, he was Submarine Service (SS) qualified. He is a recipient of the Vietnam Service Medal, Honorable Discharge, and a Whiting Foundation Experimental Grant. He is a member of IEEE (technological society), AAAS (scientific society), and the Academy of American Poets, and is a former Boeing engineer.

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      Detonation - R. J. Keeler

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      Detonation

      R. J. Keeler

      Detonation

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      First Part: Love, et al.

      Carthage, a Salted Plain

      Minotaur at My Door

      A Shark Is Not

      My Son Jordan

      Treechild

      In Bed with the Werewolf

      Amazonia

      The Animal Communicator

      God in Underwear

      Amour in the Age of Viruses, Porcupines, of Immunology

      Voluntarism

      A Verso Likeness (Imagined, of Course) of Some Acquaintances:

      Black Dirt

      Constancy of Method

      Gravity: It Must Be Good for Something

      The Weather Inside of Us

      The Universe is Simply a Sounding Drum

      My Heart’s Gone Uzi

      At the Self-Serve

      The Christmas Concert on Orcas Island at Victorian Valley Chapel

      Karen’s Poem

      Trade (Among the Equilibrists)

      On Online Dating

      Pantoum: Meditation While Washing Laundry

      Trophy

      Woman Marries Iguana, Carries Eggs

      To Lorna Doone from Her Husband, John, after Twenty Years of Marriage

      Second Part: Death

      Mud Dauber Wasp Nest

      In a Hostage Situation: A Play in Four Acts

      Male Sperm Counts Are Falling All Across the Western World

      After Chopping off Dozens of Mouses’ Heads Suddenly We Understood Literature

      The Altar Fires

      Fatherland

      Circling on the Edge of the War Zone

      Dirty Dead Prick Fish

      Strait of Georgia

      After a Train There’d Be a Fit

      Were We Really So Happy Back Then?

      The Literal Mind Was Crushed

      Meditation on a Trash Fire in My Backyard

      And Pity Those Who Lost Their Grip

      On the Earth of Lincoln County, Washington, on Saint Valentine’s Day, 1993

      Along the Shore

      Death Is Pique

      Eridanus, Mythical River

      Assemblage: On a South Dakota Chain Gang in Autumn, 1958—Air, Ants, and Fervid Thinking

      My Transuranium Goblet

      Kids Just Getting off the Ferry

      Third Part: Literature

      Pressure Changes at Snow Lines

      A Bee in Late October

      A Young Flemish Scientist in Early Contemplation of Gravity and Light

      Hive

      The Orb Weaver

      A Compass Only Spins That Finds No Source

      The Pale Wall Became the Mind Itself

      Rue, Herb of Grace

      Year of the Gnat

      The Cow that Makes Cream

      A Puzzle on the Table inside M.V. Chetzemoka Underway

      Final Canticle, on the Tools for Cultivation of Our Own Secret Garden

      π Covered in Whipped Cream

      Symmetry

      Fourth Part: Everything Else

      White, Black

      Flash of Beauty

      House of Lords, Temporal and Spiritual

      Invasive Species

      Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat

      Inventing a New Color

      The Empty Quarter

      The Standard Model

      A Community of Whores

      Window Sitter

      And Just This Far from Hopelessness

      Anticline

      What Do Cats Contribute Positively to Universal Ecology?

      Underworld Children

      The Woman Who Never Slept

      Notes

      About the Author

      For Isadora Paradise

      Acknowledgements

      I would like to thank the editors of the following journals, presses, and contests who first printed or selected these poems:

      •Alternating Current: Trade

      •Atlanta Review: Meditation on a Trash Fire in My Backyard, a finalist for their 2019 International Poetry Competition and published in the Fall/Winter Issue

      •Big Pond Rumours Press: A Shark Is Not, Gravity: It Must Be Good for Something, and "A Puzzle on the Table inside M.V. Chetzemoka Underway"

      •Curating Alexandria: Window Sitter

      •Deluge Literary and Arts Journal: Carthage, A Salted Plain

      •Foliate Oak Literary Magazine: The Cow That Makes Cream

      •Francis Ponge Prize for Prose Poetry (runner-up): The Animal Communicator

      •Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry (finalist): On the Earth of Lincoln County, Washington on Saint Valentine’s Day

      •Garfield Lake Review: At the Self-Serve

      •Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest, Poets & Patrons of Chicago: Male Sperm Counts Are Falling All Across the Western World, Modern Sonnet Contest Special Recognition

      •Jerry Jazz Musician: The Empty Quarter

      •Mingled Voices 4: International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2019: Invasive Species

      •Mithila Review: Mud Dauber Wasp Nest

      •National Poetry Library in London (archived): The Animal Communicator

      •New Times Magazine: Circling on the Edge of the War Zone

      •Orbis International Journal:

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