Newman 1186.

Only 3 copies in Worldcat.

"A publication of the winning manuscript of the 1984 Poetry Chapbook Competition." -- back cover

Inscribed by author: "for Bruce Weigl, O most excellent blood 'This early Popeye stuff', David, 5.28.84, San Francisco"


Born April 1, 1948, in the Missouri Ozarks; served in U.S. Army, 1968-77, as a clinical specialist, including service in Vietnam as a medic with B Company, First Battalion, Fourteenth Infantry, Fourth Division; MA from SFSU, where he taught creative writing; ward clerk at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley -- Unaccustomed Mercy; Ehrhart, W.D. ed. p.33