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Travis Catsull

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Travis Catsull lives in Austin, Texas. He is the founder and editor of Haggard and Halloo Publications and the poetry editor for Arthur Magazine. Travis is the author of 4 poetry books including Open Spirit, Isle of Asphalt, Death of An Image and Other Poems and Black Moon Elevator.
For more information on this and other projects please visit his blog @ www.traviscatsull.com.


I stumbled across this Roethke poem again recently and it has been years since I’ve tried to tackle Roethke. I always found his language a bit thick and dated, like trying to swallow a date thick with honey. This particular poem has nothing to do with my current mind set, but has everything to do with Roethke as he battled mental illness, which I believe was simply eccentric behavior in respons...

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The Heaven Antenna: A Book ...
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Open Spirit
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Read this at the recommendation of my wife and it was an interesting story. I don't read many stories that have to do with circus life, but Water for Elephants stampeded deep into that world and the sordid characters who made up this depression era t...more
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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
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There's one really disturbing part in this relatively disturbing book which makes the ending of this book very blah. I was expecting a really exceptional ending, but was a bit disappointed. The main character of this book keeps this short read intere...more
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Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
read in August, 2010
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Last year my favorite book was The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls so when she released her 2nd title, Half Broke Horses I purchased it the day it came out in hardback. I had hopes. The Glass Castle was an amazing read and is in fact the great Americ...more
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“But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.”
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it...more



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