The complete writings of W. Mahlon Purdin, Jacob Harmony and Bill Purdin

The Complete Prose, Poetry, and Essay Writing of

W. Mahlon Purdin

A complete list of poetic and fictional works to date.
A selection for each book of poetry is here.
Some work was written as Jacob Harmony, and much as Bill Purdin.

P O E T R Y
(Excerpts from books)

I. First Poems (1974)
II. No Place To Wash Our Hands (1975)
III. The Ballad Of Hayden Brown (1975)
IV. And Is Mine One? (1976)
V. Go Forth Companionless (1976)
VI. July Poems (1976)
VII. Self Poems (1977)
VIII. Touch & Eddy (1977)
IX. Forty Days, Forty Nights (1982-1990)
X. Untitled Poems (1987)
XI. Pencil Poems, Fading Poems (1987)
XII. Untitled Poems II (1993)
XIII. Songs (Compiled 1994)
XIV. Spoondrifting (2001)
XV. Working Poems (2001-2002)
XVI. Welkin Blush (2002-2004)
XVII. Untitled Poems III (2005 -present)
XVIII: Selected Poems: A Chrestomathy (2003)
XX. Poems/2005 (2005)
XXI. Poems/2006
XXII. Poems/2007 (working)
XXIII. Only You (working)

S H O R T S T O R I E S

The Last Remains (1972)
Abyss (1973)
Wish You Were Here (1978)
Kill Zone (1979, updated 2002)
Zachary Doane & The Cat Who Came In From The Cold (1987)
Ratworld (1990, updated 2003)

N O V E L S

I'll Ask Her In The Morning (1978/2005)
Farson Uiost and The ScreenMasters (1990 - 2007)
Farson Uiost and The Seas of Sargasso (working)


N O N F I C T I O N

Comments and Blogs
Some magazine articles
(many other writings available on legendinc.com)
Letters from Vietnam

Notes to readers about system of dating poems:

-- no date notation:
it was written in the early years (1960 to 1975) and published in "First Poems"

-- a date notation but no"-1, -2, -3, or -4": i.e., 12296 (December 29, 1976):
it was written in from 1976 to 1985
-- A date notation, followed by a "-3":
it was written after 1985, the third decade
-- A date notation, followed by a "-4":
it was written in the 1990s
and so on...




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