Fiddledeedee (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781941209172)

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

Author: Shelby Stephenson
ISBN-10: 1941209173
ISBN-13: 9781941209172
Publisher: Press 53
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2015
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d