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Time Will Tell: Collected Poems Volume 10
Hardcover
Series: The Sabine Literature
Publisher Price: $39.95
ISBN13: 9781680033700
Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
From the sandy pine hills and river bluffs of North Louisiana to the cypress swamps and reedy marshes of South Louisiana--from the Ozarks to the Gulf--David Middleton celebrates, in evocative descriptions and compelling stories, the flora and fauna, the history and prehistory, the geography and the people, of his native state. But like Robert Frost's New England or Thomas Hardy's Wessex, Middleton's Louisiana becomes the locale of readily sharable universal human experiences: love, death, war, religion, art, family, and friends. Standing atop Driskill Mountain, the highest point of elevation in Louisiana, the poet-as-fiddler affirms his calling in life:
For that's what bow and strings are for,
To raise things up in song
Between The Fall and Paradise
And urge the world along.
Taken as a whole, the poems in this volume confirm Middleton as the preeminent inheritor among living poets of the Southern Agrarian Literary Tradition.
In addition to the full poems of Middleton's previously published works*, Time Will Tell includes 50 years of selected, new, uncollected, and previously unpublished poems, written 1973-2023. *The Burning Fields (LSU Press, 1991), Beyond the Chandeleurs (LSU Press, 1999), The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy: Poems After Pictures by Jean-François Millet (LSU Press, 2005), The Fiddler of Driskill Hill (LSU Press, 2013), Outside the Gates of Eden (Measure Press, 2023).
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