An excerpt from Dennis Mahagin's new book, Longshot & Ghazal, available from Mojave River Press in August 2014 (MojaveRiverPress.com > Buy Books)

Dennis Mahagin reads Longshot Pays for the Souls He Threw Over

It's raining at the train depot, but Dennis Mahagin is on the platform, shaking water off his overcoat collar; he turns, begins to recite a poem, "Bruce Dern's Iconoclastic Suicide Prevention Hotline," and it's then you remember his brilliant new collection, Longshot & Ghazal, is available at MojaveRiverPress.com.

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