Crab Orchard Review Vol. 12, No. 2, our

the Crab Orchard Series
in Poetry
2002 Open Competition Award
Pelican Tracks
Poems by Elton Glaser
“Elton Glaser’s Pelican Tracks offers
us an intimate and intricate portrait
of gritty down-home life in Louisiana.
The characters and places that populate
this book reveal lives thoroughly lived
and remind us that whoever and
whatever surrounds us quietly invades
us—in the best and perhaps worst sense
of the word—and, finally, becomes us.”
—Tim Seibles, author of Hammerlock
and Hurdy-Gurdy
Series Editor, Jon Tribble
“These beautifully made poems—rich as redeye
gravy, crystalline as Ohio ice—will delight anyone
seeking a fresh understanding of the American
soul.…Glaser is a national treasure. His poems are
at once gritty and reverent, profound and comic. If
you worry for the fate of literature, read this book
and take heart.”—Alice Fulton, author of Felt and
Sensual Math
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91 pages
ISBN 0-8093-2516-0, $14.95 paper
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