Originally published in H.O.W. Journal.
from
Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara [AUDIOBOOK],
released October 19, 2021
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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
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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.