Philip Daughtry

 

  THE CENTAUR'S SON


     
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THE CENTAUR'S SON
Literature & Essay
x 8½ 220 pp
Paper, $15

978-1-56279-131-5
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Daughtry trespasses Federal land in Oregon to greet a wild stallion; follows a young cheating husband through pagan Ireland as he attempts to heal a wounded bird to win back the trust of his wife; visits a doomed drunken poet in Helsinki; finds first love, for a night, in 1960s Paris; works with an insane cowhand in lawless Belize backcountry; traffics special cargo into Ireland; describes the lives of children living and playing in an abandoned prison camp in northern England; travels with gypsies along Spain’s gold coast; and speculates on a flooded world where lost men sail between mountaintops of islands.

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Praise for Celtic Blood (New Native Press):
“This is a powerful book that mingles bardic languages, mythological imagination, and
the American landscape.”— Robert Bly

       
    Born in Derwentwater, England in 1942, PHILIP JAMES DAUGHTRY is a descendant of American outlaws Frank and Jesse James. He was involved in the “baby beat generation” during the 1970s San Francisco Renaissance. He teaches writing at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles.