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Blacksnake at the Family Reunion: Poems

Blacksnake at the Family Reunion: Poems

Huddle, David

Paperback

Series: Southern Messenger Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 080714469X
ISBN13: 9780807144695
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Nov 12 2012
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

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.

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