Blacksnake at the Family Reunion: Poems

di David Huddle (Autore)

Louisiana State University Press, 2012

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 realises 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.

• Autore: David Huddle
• Editore: Louisiana State University Press
• Collana: Southern Messenger Poets
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 68 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 333 gr.
• EAN: 9780807144695

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