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Local poet/author releases
second book of verse
By Rhonda Jones
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
October 15 will find poet Antho
;fieflman engaged in a reading
hisnew book, The Long Gap,
the Barnes & Noble bookstore.
%Thursdaylambushedhimin
the parking lot across the street
from Butler Hall on the Augusta
State University campus while he
traveled toward his role as college
professor.
afibhese poems, he said, “emanate
from my experienceinthe USA. ...
There are others that spring from
my experience as a product of the
Gairibbean.” The book’s title indi
citgs the distance, physically if
ngs. emotionally, between Mr.
Kellman and his homeland in
Bdrbados.
He says these poems explore
thethingsthat separate and unite,
nob: just culturally — but as a
black island man living in the
USA, he has probably seen more
of people’s similarities and differ
ences than most of us have. About
that, hesimply says, “Attheend of
the day, the colour of our bones
antl the colour of our blood are the
sdme.”
b®ne piece, entitled “Hotel
Rounlside,” tells of two strangers
lounging side-by-side — brought
together by loss, separated by too
mieh intimacy, too fast as she
tells him of her husband’s death.
Itends:
isßrawn by that common tide,
aauemory tightening, I grip the
launger’s side.
sMy lust quivers out to sea,
too confounded, too hungry to
rise.
zißoet Andrei Codrescu, lastyear’s
keymnote speaker for the Sandhills
Writers’ Conference at Augusta
@Gollege (Augusta State Universi
tyi hasthis tosay about The Long
Gap:
d4Tony Kellman has given us a
world here. These poems are rent
by lossand estrangement, but also
byrecovery, through memory, ofa
paradise of place and
childhood. The sorrow of
exile serves him as a le
ver for restoring the
romanticised islands ac-.
cording tothetruth ofhis
own sight. Kellman rec
reates against the colo
nial grain, and it’s a mel
amcholybut politicallyur
gént job.”
iidilled with island im
agery, the book is a path
why to a tropical place
where the song of loss is
drummed into your
breast with the warm,
tropical rain, with thesea
beatingagainsttheland,
with the frantic thrash
ing of a trapped crow.
Some poems — like
“Somewhere, Some
where,” which refers to
rain as “a faithful hang
man”—shimmer likeim
pressionist paintings:
Here, as elsewhere, a
caged sun follows me.
I'm stuck to her face
like Van Gogh’s oils,
my mania, my mania,
a howling sea.
Toward my gnarled
lips, Love’s acrid
gunsmoke coils.
This book makes his
third. His others: a col
lection of poetry, entitled
Watercourse; a novel
Project Success
Starts Fall
Session
Registration for
thefall session of
Project Success
will be Septem
ber 30 and Octo
ber 1,1996,5 -7
p.m., at the Busi
ness Technolegy
Center, 1201
Laney-Walker
Blvd., corner of
12th St. and
Laney-Walker
Blvd.
‘For more
information, call
724-0446.
Anthony Kellman
called The Coral Rooms. Though
he is writing now, he won’t say
what. “I tend to be old-fashioned,
and a little superstitious,” he said
with a chuckle. “I can say I'm
working on some verse ... some
new verse. Just enjoying writing,
observing.” He calls himself—not
a passive observer of life —but an
active observer.
Too much work, he says, is un
healthy and causes burnout. “You
need to celebrate, along with the
intensity of a vision.”
The past few years have been
“really intense” he says, so now
he’sjust strolling behind his muse,
instead of writing with a purpose.
“I think I'm really lucky to have a
publisher and an editor who real
ly understands my vision.”
He can go back to that relaxed
sort of writng from time to time,
he says, because he doesn’t worry
about outdoing himself. “Once a
writer gives his best shot, or her
best shot, that’s all you can be
expected to do.”
Don’t forget: Mr. Kellman will
be reading from The Long Gap
Oct. 15 at Barnes & Noble Book
store at 8 p.m. The Long Gap may
beordered from Peepal Tree Press,
Ltd. in Great Britain, 17 King’s
Avenue, Leeds, LS6 IQS.
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Some gas stations fight to survive
glitzy self-service attraction
By Timothy Cox
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
Paul Garren compares his gas
station to a dinosaur.
Mr. Garren says his and other
full-service gas stations are on the
verge of extinction.
The owner of Garren’s Corner
BP, 203 13th Street, said it’s diffi
cult for shops like his to compete
with glitz and convenience associ
ated with self-service stations in
the Augusta area.
While Mr. Garren admits full
service stations like his must
chargea few cents more per gallon
of gas, he says customers lose out
in the long run by not using them.
“A person may drive five or six
miles just to save a couple pen
nies. That’s crazy. Also, what you
gain in a few cents, you may lose
because your oil was low, or the
tires needed air.”
Geraldine Vowell of West Au
gusta believes Mr. Garren’s logic.
“I don’t know anything about
cars,” said the West Augusta res
ident. “I know I can come here
because they’re dependable,” said
the longtime customer.
Mr. Garren formerly leased an
other property where he operated
a Washington Road station near
the Interstate 20 interchange.
Rising corporate costs led to his
downtown relocation, hesaid. Now
he faces more competition with
the August 29 opening of a 24-
hour, self-serve BP station at
Broad Street and Riverwatch
Parkway.
Larry Beattie, owner of Surrey
Center Texaco, 498 Highland
Ave., believes the self-service
concept was created by big gas
companies to squeeze indepen
dent owners out of business. He
says the self-serve angle is pure
ly profit driven.
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stations. Photos: Timothy Cox
gas shortage. Since then, the big
companies have gradually in
creased independent owner’s cost
of doing business. If you don’t own
the land, you really have a prob
lem,” Mr. Beattie said.
“I don’t think people realiy like
pumping gas and getting gas on
their hands,” he said.
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SC regarding the SRS Ten Year Plan will be aired on Jones Intercable
Channel 4 on the following dates:
Friday, September 27,1996 8-9 p.m.
Monday, September 30,1996 8-9 p.m.
Please tune in on the above dates and hear DOE's plans to complete cleanup at most of its
sites by the year 2006. Join us as Al Alm, DOE Assistant Secretary for
Environmental Management and Emie Chaput, DOE-Savannah River Deputy Manager
discuss SRS's specific plan to:
(1) clean all high risk environmental remediation sites
(2) remove high-level waste from all 24 high risk tanks
(3) stabilize all SRS "at risk" nuclear materials remaining from the Cold War
For your copy oft Draft Savannah River Site Environmental Management 10 Year Plan
(also available through World Wide Web: www.srs.gov under "Getting to Know Us")
call Mary Flora at 952-6852 or 1-800-249-8155 or through internet at mary.flora@srs.gov
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Mr. Garren and Mr. Beattie
agree they must sell more than
gas to make profits.
Both stations provide light me
chanical services, including fix
ing flat tires, oil changes, tire
sales and belt replacements.
“I can count the stations that
do what we do. In the old days,
SRS Environmental Management
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AUGUSTA FOCUS September 26, 1996
there were hundreds of us,” said
Mr. Beattie, a 25-year member
and current president of the
Georgia Association of Petroleum
Retailers.
“If you have car trouble on a
Sunday night, I wish you luck —
and that’s anywhere in Ameri
ca,” Mr. Beattie said.
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