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Ghosts & Birthdays


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"Ghosts & Birthdays is Red Shuttleworth's invocation and - 'levitation with the dead' - a poet's cultural measure of the human menagerie: heroes, villains, antiheroes, writers, painters, boxers, poets, politicos, cowboy robbers, killers - an incredible range of characters in the large world Red Shuttleworth breathes alive. His poetry is always true to reveal human folly - the absurdities that contain a kind of beauty only when articulated by a true poet with a head and a heart. I'm knocked to the mat with what he discovers - his elegiac voice bringing us the ghosts of those about to be lost in the shadows of the digital disintegrating world: Olson, Dorn, Elvis, Ernest, Gabby, Will, Hank, Lyndon, Sonny, Hunter, and don't leave out Gertrude Stein eating popcorn waving fatty arms, at the movies spilling popcorn, laughing.... And on and on... I've always wanted to cross the poetry borders with William Carlos Williams' quote for the Canadian poet, Irving Layton when W.C.W. said of Layton, When I clapped eyes on his poems... I let out a yell of joy! Likewise for me here - and Red Shuttleworth's happy birthday to the whole damn thing!" -- Barry McKinnon, author of In the Millennium and The The (Finalist, 1981, Governor General's Award for Poetry)
About the Author: Poet and playwright, Red Shuttleworth is the author of Western Settings (University of Nevada Press), Johnny Ringo (Riverhouse Lit), and over thirty poetry chapbooks, including We Drove All Night (Finishing Line Press). He is the recipient of two Spur Awards for poetry from Western Writers of America and True West magazine named him "Best Living Western Poet" in 2007. Shuttleworth's poems have appeared in over 200 literary journals, including Los Angeles Review, Ontario Review, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, and Weber: The Contemporary West. Shuttleworth's play High Plains Fandango, which takes on the prospective privatization of water, of aquifers, premiered at State University of New York at Fredonia in early 2012. Over two-dozen of Shuttleworth's other plays of his have been presented widely, including at the Foothill Theatre (CA), Sundance Playwrights Lab, Sun Valley Festival of New Western Drama, University of Nebraska at Kearney, and the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780615738284
  • Publisher: Humanitas Media Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Humanitas Media Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 163 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0615738281
  • Publisher Date: 18 Dec 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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