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McIlroy House, 201 Ozark Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701 1557287759 $16.00 1-800-626-0090 Chattahoochee is an impressive compilation of verse by poetry award winner Patrick Phillips who is currently a Henry Mitchell MacCracken Henry Mitchell MacCracken was an American educator (1840-1918), born in Oxford, Ohio. Graduate of Miami University (Ohio) in 1857. After a brief teaching career MacCracken entered the Presbyterian ministry in 1863. Fellow at New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the . This is poetry that is spare, sophisticated, and above all, memorable. The Flood: Two-thirds of earth, and most of us, is water./Come life, come death's black, fathomless fath·om·less adj. 1. Too deep to be fathomed or measured. 2. Too obscure or complicated to be understood. fath water.//At the mirror I try to picture the soul./I raise my cupped hands, full of water.//And think of my birth: the scalpel, my mother's/skin parting like a sea of red water.//In the dream of the flood I'm always the one/looking back, turning into a pillar of water.//I drag a stick through my reflection: there lies/another, whose name is written in water. |
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