"I'm in awe of the truth and beauty and power of Maj Ragain's poetry here. If you have this book in hand, turn to "There Is No Will, only Need, "Sleepless with Mussolini" and his wise comic masterpiece, "Beating Back the Crocodile,'to name a few. If you have this book in hand, lucky you./BEST VALUE /FAST SHIPPING/OUTSTANDING CUSTOMER SERVICE/

Burley One Dark Sucker Fired: Collected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Ragain, Maj

Poetry

Bottom Dog Press

Poetry. Prose. Cross Genre. "One way or another, Maj Ragain is going to touch you as you read his work. And you're going to like it. He may get you in the funny bone or you may find out for yourself that he sports the Tenderest Knockout Punch in the world. He also can wield a poleaxe ("The Last Horserace in Thessaloniki"); mainly he chooses to shuttle casually back and forth between what the Romans called gravitas and what Raymond Carver, in his last days, called gravy. It's a book about living life fully among others doing the same. The subject is the racetrack, but grace, in its many aspects, turns up in guise after guise. It's a book I bet you'll enjoy"-William Pitt Root. Maj Ragain combines poetry and journal entries with newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs and horse pedigrees in what Gary Gildner calls his "love affair with the horses and luck and life and sweet naming." The author has written three previous collections of poetry, including BURLEY ONE DARK SUCKER FIRED

Twist the Axe: A Horseplayer's Story

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Poetry. Poems of daily diligence, attenuated to the rhythms of rural life, meet with poems of Buddhist inspired meditations on how these rhythms fit into larger life patterns in Maj Ragain's latest collection, A HUNGRY GHOST SURRENDERS HIS TACKLEBOX. In his hands poetry becomes that dirt road winding back home, corn tassel, fencerows, the last light fading in the top branches of a century oak, bridging solitude and community, a way to offer one's longings to the world. "Pay the bill for the water/ in which you boil the rice. The rice sustains the body./ The water—from A HUNGRY GHOST SURRENDERS HIS TACKLEBOX.

Hungry Ghost Surrenders His Tackle Box

History & Criticism

Pavement Saw Press

Maj Ragain is the author of seven chapbooks of poetry and five book-length collections, all of which contribute to Clouds Pile Up in the North: New &amp; Selected Poems. William Pitt Root, editor, Silver Concho Poetry Series, says, "One way or another Maj Ragain is going to touch you as you read his work. And you’re going to like it. He may get you in the funny bone or you may find out for yourself that he sports the Tenderest Knock-Out Punch in the world. He can also wield a pole axe: mainly he chooses to shuttle back and forth between gravitas and what Raymond Carver in his last days called gravy."

Clouds Pile Up in the North: New & Selected Poems

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Burley One Dark Sucker Fired: Collected Poems

Twist the Axe: A Horseplayer's Story

Hungry Ghost Surrenders His Tackle Box

Clouds Pile Up in the North: New & Selected Poems