Blacksnake At The Family Reunion

Author : David Huddle
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807144711
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacksnake at the Family Reunion written by David Huddle and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing stories as if told by a quirky, usually reticent, great uncle. In "Boy Story," a teenage romantic meeting ends abruptly when the boy's sweetheart realizes they have parked near her grandmother's grave. The poem "Aloft" recalls a widowed mother's indignation after she receives a marriage proposal in a hot air balloon. Haunted by the words on his older sister's tombstone -- "born & died... then / a single date / in November" -- the speaker in one poem struggles to understand a tragic loss: "The ampersand / tells the whole truth / and nothing but, / so help me God, / whose divine shrug / is expressed so / eloquently / by that grave mark." Blacksnake at the Family Reunion continues Huddle's poetic inquiry into the power of early childhood and family to infuse adulthood with sadness and despair -- an inquiry conducted with profound empathy for the fragility of humankind.

Author : David Huddle
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807144703
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacksnake at the Family Reunion written by David Huddle and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing stories as if told by a quirky, usually reticent, great uncle. In "Boy Story," a teenage romantic meeting ends abruptly when the boy's sweetheart realizes they have parked near her grandmother's grave. The poem "Aloft" recalls a widowed mother's indignation after she receives a marriage proposal in a hot air balloon. Haunted by the words on his older sister's tombstone -- "born & died... then / a single date / in November" -- the speaker in one poem struggles to understand a tragic loss: "The ampersand / tells the whole truth / and nothing but, / so help me God, / whose divine shrug / is expressed so / eloquently / by that grave mark." Blacksnake at the Family Reunion continues Huddle's poetic inquiry into the power of early childhood and family to infuse adulthood with sadness and despair -- an inquiry conducted with profound empathy for the fragility of humankind.

Author : William Gray Murdock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brady Family Reunion and Fragments of Brady History and Biography written by William Gray Murdock and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca McClanahan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300859X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tribal Knot written by Rebecca McClanahan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we responsible for, and to, those forces that have formed us—our families, friends, and communities? Where do we leave off and others begin? In The Tribal Knot, Rebecca McClanahan looks for answers in the history of her family. Poring over letters, artifacts, and documents that span more than a century, she discovers a tribe of hardscrabble Midwest farmers, hunters, trappers, and laborers struggling to hold tight to the ties that bind them, through poverty, war, political upheavals, illness and accident, filicide and suicide, economic depressions, personal crises, and global disasters. Like the practitioners of Victorian "hair art" who wove strands of family members' hair into a single design, McClanahan braids her ancestors' stories into a single intimate narrative of her search to understand herself and her place in the family's complex past.

Author : David Biespiel
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0375712445
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems of the American South written by David Biespiel and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-of-a-kind collection of poems about the American South ranges over four centuries of its dramatic history. The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically vibrant. No other region of the United States has been as mythologized as the South, nor contained as many fascinating, beguiling, and sometimes infuriating contradictions. Poems of the American South includes poems both by Southerners and by famous observers of the South who hailed from elsewhere. These range from Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and Francis Scott Key through Langston Hughes, Robert Penn Warren, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, and Donald Justice, and include a host of living poets as well: Wendell Berry, Rita Dove, Sandra Cisneros, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, C. D. Wright, Natasha Trethewey, and many more. Organized thematically, the anthology places poems from past centuries in fruitful dialogue with a diverse array of modern voices who are redefining the South with a verve that is reinvigorating American poetry as a whole.

Author : David Huddle
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807160148
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream Sender written by David Huddle and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "“Huddle is a source of light in an often gray world.”—Booklist “[Huddle’s poetry is] luminous and majestic.”— Philip Deaver, The Southern Review An account of spiritual survival through the practice of literary art, the poems in David Huddle’s eighth collection, Dream Sender, move among a variety of poetic forms and voices. Here, a bear wonders why he could not have been a raccoon, a bird, or a meadow; and a five-year-old thrills to the forbidden taste of whiskey as he eavesdrops on his parents’ after-dinner conversation. By turns outrageous and pragmatic, Huddle’s poems acknowledge the powerful and disturbing currents of the contemporary world as they also explore the comfort and familiarity we find there. Huddle’s poems illuminate the nature of relationships between family, friends, and even animals, celebrating their shortcomings, embarrassments, and eccentricities. At once frank and compassionate, Dream Sender finds both humor and poignancy in human imperfections.

Author : David Huddle
Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 1936797585
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faulkes Chronicle written by David Huddle and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of uncanny originality, David Huddle's nineteenth book is the account of an extraordinary death trip taken by a charismatic and beloved woman, her husband, and an astonishing number of offspring, from infants to young adults. The Faulkes Chronicle explores how children grieve, and shows how the wit and courage of even the littlest brothers and sisters can be a source of resilience. Familial conversation composes an intimate requiem, transforming loss into comprehension. Only one of our finest writers could manage this delicate material. The Faulkes Chronicle is a brief, autumnal novel— made of momentary details yet with an encompassing grandeur.

Author : David Huddle
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807172340
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Surly Heart written by David Huddle and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Surly Heart, the prolific poet and novelist David Huddle reflects on turning seventy-six years of age and records his aghast reactions to changes brought about by the current president of the United States. Huddle avoids the pitfalls of speechifying, pseudo-philosophizing, or indulging in unmitigated complaint. Instead, he embraces the potential of poetry to use intelligence, wit, language, knowledge, and sense of form to move toward useful revelations. Throughout this idiosyncratic collection of verse, Huddle deploys poem making as a method for psychologically and spiritually navigating from his past to his present life and on into whatever his future may hold. These poems traverse childhood memories, birding adventures, musical reveries, the role of art, and many points in between. My Surly Heart shows a celebrated poet confronting the challenges of age and country with wry humor and unsparing honesty.

Author : Leanne Ponder
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0979355478
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tonight Not Even My Skin written by Leanne Ponder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrian Blevins
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821445316
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean written by Adrian Blevins and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today’s finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies. In essays that take wide-ranging forms—making this an ideal volume for creative nonfiction classes—contributors write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken. They consider the courage required for the inheritances they carry. Toughness and generosity alike characterize works by Dorothy Allison, bell hooks, Silas House, and others. These writers travel far away from the boundaries of a traditional Appalachia, and then circle back—always—to the mountains that made each of them the distinctive thinking and feeling people they ultimately became. The essays in Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean are an individual and collective act of courage. Contributors: Dorothy Allison, Rob Amberg, Pinckney Benedict, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Sheldon Lee Compton, Michael Croley, Richard Currey, Joyce Dyer, Sarah Einstein, Connie May Fowler, RJ Gibson, Mary Crockett Hill, bell hooks, Silas House, Jason Howard, David Huddle, Tennessee Jones, Lisa Lewis, Jeff Mann, Chris Offutt, Ann Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, Melissa Range, Carter Sickels, Aaron Smith, Jane Springer, Ida Stewart, Jacinda Townsend, Jessie van Eerden, Julia Watts, Charles Dodd White, and Crystal Wilkinson.