{"product_id":"what-passes-for-love-jack-b-bedell-9781881515340","title":"What Passes for Love: Poems Volume 1","description":"Few things will bring people together in south Louisiana quicker than stories, food, and festivals that have both. The poems in Jack Bedell's \u003ci\u003eWhat Passes for Love\u003c\/i\u003e show all that and a little lagniappe. From a midnight chari vari, to the Fete de la Roulaison (the Grinding Festival), to newlyweds making love in the cane field and fishing tales galore, Bedell writes about the many sides of Louisiana's Acadian culture and its people. Poem by poem, this collection builds an honest, evocative, and sensitive world of stories told by a writer with an obvious love of place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLove in the Cane Field-After the Grinding \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe young groom wakes to stars and October chill \u003cbr\u003eto find a trail of bedclothes disappearing \u003cbr\u003einto the children's cane. There's nothing left \u003cbr\u003eof the festival, save the smoke that lingers- \u003cbr\u003eabove the burned fields. The cane's been pressed, \u003cbr\u003ethe trucks readied for the trip to town. \u003cbr\u003eHere and there nighthawks skim the clearing \u003cbr\u003efor mice. There's no other movement \u003cbr\u003eabove the rows as he gathers wood for the. fire. \u003cbr\u003eHe tries to think of the evening they've just passed \u003cbr\u003ealone, the lines of her back beneath the moon, \u003cbr\u003ethe hope of money this year's cane will bring, \u003cbr\u003ebut cannot keep his mind from what waits for her \u003cbr\u003ebetween the stalks-snakes left from summer, \u003cbr\u003esinkholes yawning for her legs, blades \u003cbr\u003eleft carelessly about. He does not blink \u003cbr\u003euntil the cane parts, releasing her to the clearing \u003cbr\u003enaked and smiling, stronger than he knew. \u003cbr\u003eIn the fire's glow he sees a spider web \u003cbr\u003estretched across her stomach, hip to hip, \u003cbr\u003ethe shine of her skin against the night, her eyes \u003cbr\u003eclosing slowly with each step toward him. \u003cbr\u003eNext year's growth surrounds them in the dark, \u003cbr\u003eand morning holds its breath across the fields. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jack B. Bedell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1881515346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781881515340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trp: The University Press of Shsu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Jack B. Bedell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519574061311,"sku":"9781881515340","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3a160061-75da-4213-9ff1-f0fcc376b9df.jpg?v=1778737763","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-passes-for-love-jack-b-bedell-9781881515340","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}