title: Cut Off the Ears of Winter (First Book)
author:  Peter Covino 
description: "Peter Covino's debut book of poetry, Cut Off the Ears of Winter, is a haunting work of desperation, abuse, redemption, and beauty. The brutality and conflict of what is at stake in these lyrical poems is rarely addressed in the foreground of the narrative. Instead, it lurks in the background of what is said. Covino's minimalist diction, conversational voice, and simple albeit effective imagery results in a personal and humanistic sense, which is easily related to. Covino handles the lyrical narrative masterfully . . ."--G. Von Bourdeau "Pebble Lake Review"
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  COMANCHE MOON
  
  
  
  
  
  By Larry McMurtry
  
  
  
  
  
  Book I
  
  
  
  
  
  Captain Inish Scull liked to boast that he had never been thwarted in pursuit
  --as he liked to put it--of a felonious foe, whether Spanish, savage, or
  white.
  
  
  
  
  
  "Nor do I expect to have to make an exception in the present instance," he
  told his twelve rangers. "If you've got any sacking with you, tie it around
  your horses' heads. I've known cold sleet like this to freeze a horse's
  eyelids, and that's not good. These horses will need smooth use of their
  eyelids tomorrow, when the sun comes out and we run these thieving Comanches
  to ground." Captain Scull was a short man, but forceful. Some of the men
  called him Old Nails, due to his habit of casually picking his teeth with a
  horseshoe nail--sometimes, if his ire rose suddenly, he would actually spit
  the nail at whoever he was talking to.
  
  
  
  
  
  "This'll be good," Augustus said, to his friend Woodrow Call. The cold was
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