Given my already poem-ified fondness for the gar fish, I was doubly pleased to see this monstrosity over at Shanna's blog. That, my friends, is reason enough to never go back in the water. I love the two guys who caught it.
Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
3 comments:
ha! my husband thinks the guys are the scariest part. remember, they carry compound bows AND budweiser! eek! ;)
That's why I love them! They shot a truly giant beast of a fish.
With a compound bow.
That's impressive.
I am really scared of that fish!
Ack.
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