Geography & Circumstance
Geography & Circumstance is the first chapbook by Spencer Keralis. The volume collects thirty poems from 1989 1o 2009. Many of the poems first appeared in distinguished small press publications like The Owen Wister Review, The Dry Crik Review of Cowboy Poetry, and cowboypoetry.com. Spencer’s work is not traditional “cowboy poetry” in any sense, but rather traces one westerner’s pilgrimage from rural to urban and follows the prodigal’s homecoming, swinging from boom to bust and back again.
The cover art was designed by award-winning photographer and graphic designer Michele Crail.
Spencer Keralis lives and works in Colorado. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, The Dry Crik Review of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry, and The Owen Wister Review. His scholarly work has appeared in Book History and Texte und Töne, and he maintains an occasional blog on critical theory and contemporary young adult fiction. Spencer was a member, with Carolyn Tuttle Hansen and Chris Besinger, of the original Minneapolis writers’ group that gave birth to Laughing Mouse Press. Spencer’s story “An Unspeakable Vice” is featured in LMP’s Junior High Yearbook.
The Rabbit Sellers
(Easter 1991, Riverton, Wyoming)
From a chicken wire cage on
the bed of an old Ford,
the man pulled a struggling doe.
The lady patted her hands together,
bovine eyes twinkling. He took
her money and put it in a cigar
box held together with masking tape
and a tired smile creased
the corners of his gray eyes.Three round and solemn faces peered
through the filthy window of the cab;
the children knew what the woman
could not – that her money would go
toward this season’s feed and seed
and that those rabbits not redeemed by her
and her kind would die on Friday,
to rise again as Sunday dinner.
Spencer Keralis by Michele Crail, San Francisco 2005
Geography & Circumstance
Spencer Keralis
ISBN: 978-0-9843248-2-8
56 pages, saddle-stitch
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