Poetry; Published 1977; Cover portrait by Robert "Bob" Branaman
Dominion and Other Poems by Alan Bätjer Russo
This limited edition chapbook is out of print. A digital facsimile copy is forthcoming.
Table of Contents:
Includes poems featured in Locked Man, NOW, FUX, Le Feu Du Ciel, Animal Light, and Out of Sight magazines.
EPIGRAM: AN ANGEL CRY
WE ARE DYING
DOOMED TO REPLY
YOU HAVE TO LIE LIKE A SNAKE
RADIO HASH
BOARDMAN STREET POEM
PUMP PUZZLES
THE SPANISH MAIN
THE WEREWOLF HANGS IN SPACE
SAINT MARY
THE PIT OF BEING
DOMINION
THE NEW MINT RIDE
A FAILURE
TEN TIMES THE CHRIST
About the Author
Alan Bätjer Russo was born May 25, 1938 in Auburn, NY. In 1948 he moved with his family to Wichita, Kansas.
After completing high school early, he enrolled at Wichita University, where he took classes in the literary arts and befriended members of the local literary and artistic scene—including fellow students Glenn Todd, Justin Hein, Charles Plymell, Roxie Powell, and Robert Branaman.
In 1960 Alan moved to San Francisco to be followed by several of his Wichita cohorts. He subsequently published poems in a number of literary magazines and chapbooks created by Plymell, Branaman, and David Omer Bearden. In 1967-1968 he was a staff-member at the San Francisco Oracle and began working sub-rosa on a sequence of prose writings that would comprise an “autobiographical novel” he called State Line.
By the 1980’s he was living in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he supported himself by driving a cab. He passed on May 24, 2003. His death certificate noted his occupation as “Poet and Cab Driver.”