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    Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey
    Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey
    Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey
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    Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey

    By Edward Abbey

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    Poems about love and landscapes by the author of the classic Desert Solitaire, an “environmentalist, nature writer, novelist and all-around iconoclast” (The New York Times).
     
    While better known for his nature writing and his comic classic The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey was also an enthusiastic creator of verse. The New York Times called his memoir Desert Solitaire “deeply poetic”—and now Earth Apples gives us his actual poetry, in Abbey’s first and only collection.
     
    Whether writing about vast desert landscapes, New York City, or a love of bawdy women, Abbey's verse is eloquent, irreverent, and unapologetically passionate. The poems gathered here, published digitally for the first time, are culled from Abbey’s journals and give an insightful and unique glance into the mind of this literary legend.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 19, 2011
    ISBN9780795317545
    Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey
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    Edward Abbey

    Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was born in Home, Pennsylvania. He received graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico, and attended the University of Edinburgh. He worked for a time as a forest ranger and was a committed naturalist and a fierce environmentalist; such was his anger, eloquence, and action on the subject that he has become a heroic, almost mythic figure to a whole host of environmental groups and literally millions of readers. Abbey's career as a writer spanned four decades and encompassed a variety of genres, from essays to novels. One of his early successes was the novel The Brave Cowboy, which was made into the movie Lonely Are the Brave. His 1968 collection of essays, Desert Solitaire, became a necessary text for the new environmentalists, like the group 'Earth First,' and his rambunctious 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, a picaresque tale of environmental guerillas, which launched a national cult movement and sold over half-a-million copies. Other titles include The Journey Home, Fool's Progress, and the posthumously released Hayduke Lives!

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      Earth Apples - Edward Abbey

      Earth Apples

      (Pommes de Terre)

      The Poetry of Edward Abbey

      Collected, Edited and Introduced by David Petersen

      Edward Abbey

      Copyright

      Earth Apples

      Copyright © 1994 by Clarke C. Abbey

      Cover art to the electronic edition copyright © 2011 by RosettaBooks, LLC

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Electronic edition published 2011 by RosettaBooks LLC, New York.

      ISBN e-Pub edition: 9780795317545

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      CONFESSIONS: 1951–1965

      The Whole Fucking Crew

      November, 1951—Edinburgh

      December, 1951—Edinburgh

      December, 1951—Edinburgh II

      February, 1952—Edinburgh

      Verse Provoked by a Recent Visit to the Stacks

      January, 1952—Majorca

      January, 1952—Majorca II

      March, 1952—Edinburgh

      April, 1952—on the North Sea

      April, 1952—on the North Sea II

      Brief Speech to a Weather Vane

      April, 1952—on the North Sea III

      May, 1952—Norway

      May, 1952—Norway II

      Feudalism

      Terror and Desire

      The Wild Dove

      Flash Flood

      August, 1956—Arches

      August, 1956—Arches II

      August, 1959—Albuquerque

      The Writer

      Ditty

      July, 1965—Arches

      Episodes and Visions

      A Few Appropriate Lines from Burns

      A Maxim

      POEMS AND SHARDS: 1965–1970

      Book I: Poems for Judy

      Love Letter

      The Gift

      Love Poem

      Song from the City

      Soaring Song

      North Rim

      Idle Music

      Book II: Occasions

      A Simple-Minded Song of Hatred

      One Thing at a Time, for Christ’s Sake

      Manhattan at Twilight, Seen from the Palisades

      Book III: Notes & Illuminations from a Burning Book

      King Aethelstan to All Heads…

      Pommes de Terre

      A Dream

      Last Rites

      Peace & Plenty

      From a Sundown Legend

      Where Is Your Rock?

      Due Notice

      What Zapata Said

      Inconsolable Memories

      Essay on Time

      Long Poem: A Few Words for Some of My Contemporaries

      For the Old Man

      On the Birth of My Son

      Book IV: Love’s Bawdy

      Frivolous Question

      Two Profane Love Songs

      I Wish

      I Don’t Want Them All (I Just Want All the Ones I Want)

      Mornings in Santa Fe, Dead in Death Valley

      Book V: Desert Music

      Black Sun

      Down the River

      The Dry Season

      Ambition

      American Picnic

      An Evening Star

      Desert Music

      A Sonnet for Everett Ruess

      CONFESSIONS: 1972–1989

      Last Thoughts While Lost Below Lizard Rock

      Three Limericks

      For Marcel Proust, et al.

      For Clarke

      The Kowboy and His Kow

      Benedictio

      About the Author

      About the Editor

      Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around.

      —in a letter from Mrs. Melville to her mother, 1859,

      as quoted in Confessions of a

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