Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara [AUDIOBOOK]

by William Fargason

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released October 19, 2021

University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright © 2020 by William Fargason
www.uipress.uiowa.edu
Printed in the United States of America

Cover photography © Devin Lunsford

Text design by Judy Gilats

No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach.

Printed on acid-free paper

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Fargason, William, 1988- author.
Title: Love song to the demon-possessed pigs of Gadara / William Fargason.
Description: Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, [2020] | Series: Iowa poetry prize

Identifiers: LCCN 2019036803 (print) | LCCN 2019036804 (ebook) | ISBN 9781609387051 (paperback) | ISBN 9781609387068 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry
Classification: LCC PS3606.A6 L68 2020 (print) | LCC PS3606.A684 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6—dc23
LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2019036804
LC ebook record available at lccn.loc.gov/2019036804

Epigraph on page vii is used with permission. The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor, Theodora Ward, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1958 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1986. Copyright © 1914, 1924, 1932, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952 by Alred Leete Hampson. Copyright © 1960 by Mary L. Hampson.

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William Fargason Tallahassee, Florida

William Fargason is the author of Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara (University of Iowa Press, 2020), and the winner of the 2019 Iowa Poetry Prize. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and a PhD in poetry from Florida State University. He is the poetry editor of Split Lip Magazine. He lives with himself in Sparks Glencoe, Maryland. ... more