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All the live-long day : poems / by JV Brummels.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.R7992 A6 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brummels, J. V., author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Cowboys--Poetry.
- Cowboys.
- Work.
- Teachers.
- Farmers.
- Ranchers.
- Ranchers--Poetry.
- Farmers--Poetry.
- Teachers--Poetry.
- Work--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 92 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Nacogdoches, Texas : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- J.V. Brummels's newest collection, All the Live-Long Day, continues the legacy of a strong-voiced, strong-armed poetry. As the title suggests in a mocking, self-effacement, these are the poems of a man who has been working, perhaps not on the railroad, but in the classroom, in the fields, with his horses and his cattle. Brummels's poetry is simultaneously poised on humour and drop-dead seriousness, where 'an education's learning / how much to let slip / and when to let go'. The 'punchline' for a long working life is 'I've made a life flirting with regret / For all my bitching I'm the man / I want to be'. Who is that, then? The man who admits that he's a smart ass, a 'whiskerless schoolmarm / trying to be / a thirty-foot hard-twist snake / of an arena rope', 'a black cat in a back alley / behind a bar' before he tends to the business of branding. And yet, for all that hard word and all that hard self-appraisal, the persona is able to 'think machine and horsepower / and horse / I smell cow on the breeze'.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Rise Up So Early in the Morning 2016
- Ghost Country
- Punchline
- Spring Break
- Fools
- Derby Day
- Right Side of History
- The Poor Mouth Talking Cure
- Sundown on the Grampas
- Frontier Dead as Romance
- Jump
- A Long Way from the Heart
- An Empty Country Owned by No One Here
- Coda: Multiverse
- Dinah, Won't You Blow Your Horn Stations of the Cross
- For the Duration
- Bound Away
- Los Caballos
- White Buffalo
- Kicking Up Iron
- When All Blood Is Shadow
- The Life
- LA Suite
- Someone's in the Kitchen
- Howdy
- Part of the art of road's knowing
- It's all modern now
- You see as a kid I composed a life
- Verlene
- Verlene I will have another
- Winters now I drift
- Something's been off from the start
- Ma
- What's a cow know
- Must be hell.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 9781622889105
- 162288910X
- OCLC:
- 1157947497
- Publisher Number:
- 99986735858
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