Bledsoe is an extended narrative poem that centers on a mute Appalachian man named Durant Bledsoe. Specifically, the poem takes place in the mountains of Yancey County, North Carolina, in an early part of the 20th century. Durant Bledsoe’s mother is dying with a brain tumor and he must take care of her, all the while coming to terms with the fact that she, in her suffering, has asked him to take her life. The book focuses much on landscape and on Bledsoe’s complex psychology and perceptions of the world, specifically as they apply to culture, family, religion, and identity.
Bledsoe is an extended narrative poem that centers on a mute Appalachian man named Durant Bledsoe. Specifically, the poem takes place in the mountains of Yancey County, North Carolina, in an early part of the 20th century. Durant Bledsoe’s mother is dying with a brain tumor and he must take care of her, all the while coming to terms with the fact that she, in her suffering, has asked him to take her life. The book focuses much on landscape and on Bledsoe’s complex psychology and perceptions of the world, specifically as they apply to culture, family, religion, and identity.
William Wright is author of three other collections of poems: Dark Orchard (Texas Review Press, 2005), The Ghost Narratives (Finishing Line Press, 2008), and Sleep Paralysis (Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Prize, forthcoming from Stepping Stones Press, 2011). Recent work of Wright’s appears in Shenandoah, North American Review, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Wright is the series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology.
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Behind the Brick Pits Far Down in the Parched Hollows The Snake Spelled Plagued Him On the Spine of the Ridge I See He’s A Special Child, Miss Grown Little, Nine-Year-Old. Bledsoe Upset In Those Slow Autumns Harvest Paradox, Autumn’s Pilfer Pulp of Dying Mountain Town, Its Remnant Let Him Be Shut of Us, Lord He Walked Lonesome His Father Unlike His Father, Some Men In Years He Mended, Dusks Carry Me to the Doctor, Boy He Chose Silence Heart-Pound, Blood-Rush What They Told Me In Middle Age, Those First Leaf-strains Dear God of the Dead-Haunted Heart Nights He Moseyed through the House No Sheets. His Head Found His Father’s Rum Jug Once, When He Woke Before Dawn Death of An Orchard Spring Came, Winged Seeds To Wash Her. Up in the Dark Room, Her Body She Slept in Fits and Fever Then the World to Black Time to Leave You In the Keening House, in the Night’s Arc Went. Dusk Comes, Heat Stays, Still A Blackness Amplified, Greenness Insinuated Something Deep in Bledsoe’s Vitals They Find Him Near Noon ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Behind the Brick Pits Far Down in the Parched Hollows The Snake Spelled Plagued Him On the Spine of the Ridge I See He’s A Special Child, Miss Grown Little, Nine-Year-Old. Bledsoe Upset In Those Slow Autumns Harvest Paradox, Autumn’s Pilfer Pulp of Dying Mountain Town, Its Remnant Let Him Be Shut of Us, Lord He Walked Lonesome His Father Unlike His Father, Some Men In Years He Mended, Dusks Carry Me to the Doctor, Boy He Chose Silence Heart-Pound, Blood-Rush What They Told Me In Middle Age, Those First Leaf-strains Dear God of the Dead-Haunted Heart Nights He Moseyed through the House No Sheets. His Head Found His Father’s Rum Jug Once, When He Woke Before Dawn Death of An Orchard Spring Came, Winged Seeds To Wash Her. Up in the Dark Room, Her Body She Slept in Fits and Fever Then the World to Black Time to Leave You In the Keening House, in the Night’s Arc Went. Dusk Comes, Heat Stays, Still A Blackness Amplified, Greenness Insinuated Something Deep in Bledsoe’s Vitals They Find Him Near Noon ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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