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    Giant Sky of The Shepherds
    Giant Sky of The Shepherds
    Giant Sky of The Shepherds
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    Giant Sky of The Shepherds

    By Robert Flanagan

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    In tight, compact words that resemble an unravelling DNA code of life, poet Robert Flanagan contemplates mortality in his latest collection, Giant Sky of The Shepherds. Flanagan's poetry is essential, incantatory, and almost shamanistic in its ability to cast spells that transport the reader to invaluable inner worlds.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuernica
    Release dateJan 1, 2012
    ISBN9781550716528
    Giant Sky of The Shepherds
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    Robert Flanagan

    1. The author, Robert Flanagan, is a retired US Army Chief Warrant Officer who served 16 years in Army Security Agency at all the venues depicted in this and the foregoing two novels in The ASA Trilogy. Before Army service, he served seven years in the US Marines. He served two 1-year tours in Viet Nam, and knew the book's characters under other guises. These three books, collectively a paen to military service in intelligence in the Cold War and Viet Nam, are filled with the exploits, foibles, hi-jinks and sacrifices of the many men and women who spent lifetimes serving in the backwaters of the world in honorable service to their country. 2. Following retirement from the Army, Flanagan returned to college, earning a bachelor's in Communications, a Master of Arts in English, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. The manuscript of the three Trilogy novels was his working theses throughout academia. The genesis of the trilogy began 47 years ago in Viet Nam when he began keeping journals. 3. He is married to the same Julia for 54 years. They have four children, 10 gc, and seven ggc. They live on a ridge between two mountains in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. The author is already engaged in a new novel of totally different subject and settings. He is in his 13th year of writing a column for the weekly Hampshire Review newspaper in his home county. He is also a poet and publishes essays, articles, book reviews, and profiles.

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      Book preview

      Giant Sky of The Shepherds - Robert Flanagan

      Robert Flanagan

      Giant Sky of The Shepherds

       ESSENTIAL POETS SERIES 197

      GUERNICA

      TORONTO • BUFFALO • BERKELEY • LANCASTER (U.K.) 2012

      for Ellie, Nick, & Sarah

      Contents

      Assertion

      Involved

      Telling

      Beneath

      Condition

      Curtain

      Realized Action

      Obligation

      Man Limping

      Escape

      Around Chair

      Outcome

      Protection

      Already

      Seen

      Doctrine

      Stroke of Oars

      Relations Between

      Determination

      Not to Remain

      Interior

      Perception

      Liberty & Union

      The Race

      Preparation

      Wide Open

      Expression

      Account

      Consequences

      Never Unique

      Intrusion

      Bold Manner

      Stay There

      Participant

      I’m Outside

      Watched

      Mobility

      Quickly Grown-Up

      Price

      Chaos Scattered

      Request

      Transcend & Fuse

      Within

      Not Beyond

      Emphasis

      In Relation

      Element

      Combination

      Departure

      Justice

      Advantage

      Wheeling the Garbage

      Exhibited

      Opposite

      Waiting

      Reaction

      Sun for Lunch

      Service

      Examine

      Huge Open Landscape

      Grown Strong

      Intervention

      Aptitude

      Demanding

      Single Death

      Ingredient

      Conscious

      Uncertainty

      Would Lose

      Attendance

      Clean Snow

      Every Day

      Assemble

      What Happens

      Represent

      At Ease

      Movement

      Sign Made of Sign

      Reinforces

      Alive

      Aperture

      Rumbled Past

      A Net

      On the Run

      The Bare Essentials

      Branches Black

      I Had Travelled

      Possibility

      Curious

      Sound Drowns

      On a Serene Afternoon

      Identity

      PRAISE FOR ROBERT FLANAGAN’S POETRY

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ... of death striking us through our fear.

      – René Gimpel

      Assertion

      I look for another route.

      My tribunal to come. I regret

      my dispute. I am elevated & statement.

      My waiting room on display.

      Ornaments ahead of chase.

      Line into pour.

      All the rooms. Which I doubt.

      Years & hours wasted as

      appropriate. My smile.

      Ships & stars. Invention in a

      script. As if not here. Face

      to face. At last abstract.

      I advance.

      My excellent progress.

      My objects I heal over.

      My street of schemes prescribed.

      How they cured me in privacy

      of the valid. I am solved.

      My basics inside subdued

      behaviour. Insistent chore.

      My apathy into welcome supplied.

      Immersion drum-roll

      control. My headlong action

      concealing them. I know.

      Who lives where I live? I am before

      breaking news. My

      wealth shakes your wealth.

      My rapid development.

      I am anywhere. My self-conscious

      leap, embedded. Ready.

      Involved

      Except that it should go

      on. Different. The naked wall.

      The main stain spread out.

      A field & a beach. Close &

      remote. Life organized. Attention

      cut & tapered. Dependent.

      My mental weight. My flesh &

      blood. I run & wait. My sediment.

      Common action. The old fashion.

      Not consolation. Fast as breath

      increased away. Accelerated

      into. I am represented – exceeded.

      I exchange. I coincide my response

      in the transaction. Pushed &

      pulled from earth to air. Not

      to have detail, impatience.

      Telling

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