How Chet Baker Died

✍ Scribed by Barry Gifford

• Book ID: 111125552
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 32 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781644211557
• ASIN: B096WX23KK

✦ Synopsis

**Poems from the acclaimed author of Roy 's World, Wild at Heart , and many other works
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The first words in Barry Gifford's new poetry collection say it all--"Here I am wasting time again / writing poems to keep myself company" -- doing what he has ever done, surprising his readers in kaleidoscopic prisms of color, turning every breath into a story, and himself into his most colorful character.

She stood and walked across the lawn
past the cottage and into the big house.
He stayed to watch the last of the sunset,
waiting for the flash of green.
When it was finally dark and there was
no moon and the fireflies appeared,
he got up and began walking toward the house.
He loved the Italian word for firefly,
lucciola. She was like that, flickering
on and off from moment to moment.
As he approached the house, he could hear
her singing: _Vogliatemi...