Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork

Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
First edition
Author Richard Brautigan
Cover artist Erik Weber
Country United States
Language English
Genre Poetry
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date
1976
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 127
ISBN 0-671-22263-5
OCLC 2006053
811/.5/4
LC Class PS3503.R2736 L6

Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork is Richard Brautigan's ninth poetry publication. Published in 1976, the book includes 127 poems.[1] The four line title poem discusses the effort and interest in undertaking an obviously impossible task, such as loading the liquid metal Mercury using only a pitchfork.

  Loading mercury with a pitchfork
  your truck is almost full. The neighbors
  take a certain pride in you. They
  stand around watching.
"Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork" (1971)[1]

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