{"product_id":"time-will-tell-david-middleton-9781680033687","title":"Time Will Tell: Collected Poems of David Middleton","description":"\u003cp\u003e From the sandy pine hills and river bluffs of North Louisiana to the cypress swamps and reedy marshes of South Louisiana--from the Ozarks to the Gulf--David Middleton celebrates, in evocative descriptions and compelling stories, the flora and fauna, the history and prehistory, the geography and the people, of his native state. But like Robert Frost's New England or Thomas Hardy's Wessex, Middleton's Louisiana becomes the locale of readily sharable universal human experiences: love, death, war, religion, art, family, and friends. Standing atop Driskill Mountain, the highest point of elevation in Louisiana, the poet-as-fiddler affirms his calling in life: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor that's what bow and strings are for, \u003cbr\u003e To raise things up in song \u003cbr\u003e Between The Fall and Paradis \u003cbr\u003e And urge the world along.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Taken as a whole, the poems in this volume confirm Middleton as the preeminent inheritor among living poets of the Southern Agrarian Literary Tradition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In addition to the full poems of Middleton's previously published works*, \u003ci\u003eTime Will Tell\u003c\/i\u003e includes 50 years of selected, new, uncollected, and previously unpublished poems, written 1973-2023. *\u003ci\u003eThe Burning Fields\u003c\/i\u003e (LSU Press, 1991), \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Chandeleurs\u003c\/i\u003e (LSU Press, 1999), \u003ci\u003eThe Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy: Poems After Pictures by Jean-Fran?ois Millet\u003c\/i\u003e (LSU Press, 2005), \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddler of Driskill Hill\u003c\/i\u003e (LSU Press, 2013), \u003ci\u003eOutside the Gates of Eden\u003c\/i\u003e (Measure Press, 2021). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Middleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1680033689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680033687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"David Middleton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46545960796415,"sku":"9781680033687","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e23b6bf7-80d5-41ea-8622-d0a12d54df57.jpg?v=1738183794","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/time-will-tell-david-middleton-9781680033687","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}