| Brightwood Contributor(s): Smith, R. T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807128988 ISBN-13: 9780807128985 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2003 Annotation: A good cut--sliver by sliver--finds an owl's eye in the texture. You rasp and sand for the curve of muscle, the feel of bone, then smoke and varnish for the whiskey sheen. When it's dry and strung, tune it to the wind till it comes alive, brightwood again. If a fiddle's fashioned with such ardor, it can stir the world's first spark, drawn the way healing always is--from the stridor of the dark. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2003012170 |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.58" W x 8.22" (0.24 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written in the gothic tradition of James Dickey's Buckdancer's Choice, Brightwood contains thirty-eight poems set in the American South. This intellectual and emotionally powerful collection is an interplay of southern music, religion, and culture with nature. Driven by memories of life in the rural, segregated South, the poems seek out beauty in an attempt to stave off loneliness, pain, and loss. The lyrics are moving, the language crackles, and the past haunts every verse. |