The Tattooed Desert

By Richard Shelton

Shelton says of his work: "I consider myself a regionalist and a surrealist. I have lived in the desert for ten years and hope that my work reflects that fact." In the forty-seven poems in this collection the poet moves backward and forward through time but always in the same landscape, the desert-mountains of southern Arizona, which foster his surrealistic view of his interior conflict. He is followed by peculiarly insistent voices from the past.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082295219X
• ISBN13: 9780822952190
• Release Date: February 1971
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.0"