Published by Louisiana State University Press
Copyright © 2014 by Chris Hosea
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
LSU Press Paperback Original

First printing

Designer: Barbara Neely Bourgoyne
Typefaces: Veneer and Trade Gothic, display; Adobe Caslon Pro, text
Printer and binder: Maple Press

The author wishes to thank the editors of the following magazines, where some of the poems in this book were first published, sometimes in different form.

6x6: “Songs for a Country Drive”; Alice Blue Review: “Of Me to Love”; Boston Review: “Dark, Understated Romantic Comedies”; The Destroyer: “The Matinee I Took Chicken In”; EOAGH: “The Barn Party,” “Gonna Dig Up Ozu,” and “Hard Drive Scrub”; Hose Less Review: “Granddaddy Old Grand Dad,” “Wife Wellbutrin,” “Father Work,” “Choirboy Skittles,” and “Cousin Pot”; ’Pider: “Lithe Brunette, Twenty-Five Years of Age”; Prelude: “Across the Boss’s Desk”; Swerve: “Everything Is Going To”; Web Conjunctions: “Brother Oxycontin,” “Friend’s Girlfriend Kools,” “Grandmother Snuff,” “Mistress Damage,” “Mother Old Fashioned,” and “Sister Chablis.”

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hosea, Chris, 1973–
  [Poems. Selections]
  Put Your Hands In : poems / Chris Hosea.
      pages cm
  “LSU Press Paperback Original.”
  ISBN 978-0-8071-5585-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8071-5586-8 (pdf) — ISBN 978-0-8071-5587-5 (epub) — ISBN 978-0-8071-5588-2 (mobi)
  I. Title.
  PS3608.O779A6 2014
  811′.6—dc23

2013028460

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