Reading at
The Mill Gallery
131 Front St. (next to The Firefly), Santa
Cruz, CA
October 16 • 7 to 9 PM
Featuring
William Taylor Jr.
MK Chavez
Christopher Robin
(Down This Crooked Road)
and
RD Armstrong
(Fire & Rain)
One Night Only
LUMMOX Press
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POB 5301
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San Pedro, CA 90733-5301
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www.lummoxpress.com
9 781929 878970
ISBN 978-1-929878-97-051999 >
$19.99
FIRE and RAIN Selected Poems 1993-2007. RD
Armstrong. Volume 1
FIRE and RAIN Selected Poems 1993-2007.
RD Armstrong Volume 2
LUMMOX Press
“RD Armstrong’s ‘Fire and Rain’
[Volume 1] is mostly all ball busters and roses. One of the best
larger collections by an American poet that this reader has
read, in many moons.”
—Doug Draime
“You have a way of describing other people
because you know yourself pretty well and can relate. A new big
book -- glad it’s out there and I hope lots of people read it.”
—Leonard J. Cirino
“Upon dipping into Fire and Rain,
I could not help but take note of the quality of this
collection: the quality of the poems and the clear writing style
that the reader is o-ered with this book. Armstrong is ever the
social critic, and the 185 poems included in this manuscript are
a testament to his original vision. Working from the sweat of
life, Armstrong is a talent that plants itself in your mind with
his rough-and-ready voice of delicate lyric and renewed
narrative. He is a poet who does not creep from behind but is
full frontal in his twist of a line and his blue-collar
sensibilities. To not recommend the work of RD Armstrong to new
readers would be sinful and sad, because here is a poet with a
voice that will challenge even the most hard-ass critics of
poetry.”
—B. L. Kennedy
