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David Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing stories as if told by a quirky, usually reticent, great uncle. In "Boy Story," a teenage romantic meeting ends abruptly when the boy's sweetheart realizes they have parked near her grandmother's grave. The poem "Aloft" recalls a widowed mother's indignation after she receives a marriage proposal in a hot air balloon. Haunted by the words on his older sister's tombstone-"born & died . . . then / a single date / in November"-the speaker in one poem struggles to understand a tragic loss: "The ampersand / tells the whole truth / and nothing but, / so help me God, / whose divine shrug / is expressed so / eloquently / by that grave mark." Blacksnake at the Family Reunion continues Huddle's poetic inquiry into the power of early childhood and family to infuse adulthood with sadness and despair-an inquiry conducted with profound empathy for the fragility of humankind.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Blacksnake at the Family Reunion
• Subtitle: Poems
• Author: David Huddle
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 68
• EAN: 9780807144695
• ISBN: 080714469X
• ID: 11528301
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Weight: 100 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 142 × 4 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. November 2012

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