Author : Shelby Stephenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941209172
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Fiddledeedee by : Shelby Stephenson
Download or read book Fiddledeedee written by Shelby Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelby Stephenson can walk out his back door-even in his sleep, it seems, so tithed to the land is his subconscious-and see what lies hidden before our very eyes: in the roods and plowsoles, the tree bark and creek beds, in his beloved spectre ancestors forever singing in his head. He writes about the mystery of the dirt-what it yields, what it reclaims-with more precision and prescience than any poet I can think of. I can hear him now, whispering his sacramental litany, his invocation: "it is nothing but a song-the long journey home." Fiddledeedee is Shelby at his best. Blessed be his wholly liturgical verse-the bard, the very voice, of North Carolina. -Joseph Bathanti, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina