The Tattooed Desert

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poem
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English Title: 
The Tattooed Desert
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Duration: 
3:08
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Blurb: 
Shelton says of his work: "I consider myself a regionalist and a surrealist. I have lived in the desert for ten years and hope that my work reflects that fact." In the forty-seven poems in this collection the poet moves backward and forward through time but always in the same landscape, the desert-mountains of southern Arizona, which foster his surrealistic view of his interior conflict. He is followed by peculiarly insistent voices from the past.
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Cover of Selected Poems, 1969-1981, by Richard Shelton
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Author: 
Richard Shelton
Reader: 
Bekah Wilce, Elfrida Library
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Monday, September 6, 2021