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All the Live-Long Day

All the Live-Long Day

Brummels, J. V.

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 162288910X
ISBN13: 9781622889105
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Published: Nov 16 2020
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

JV Brummels's newest collection, All the Live-Long Day, continues the legacy of a strong-voiced, strong-armed poetry. As the title suggests in a mocking, self-effacement, these are the poems of a man who has been working, perhaps not on the railroad, but in the classroom, in the fields, with his horses and his cattle. Brummels's poetry is simultaneously poised on humor and drop-dead seriousness, where an education's learning / how much to let slip / and when to let go. The punchline for a long working life is I've made a life flirting with regret / For all my bitching I'm the man / I want to be. Who is that, then? The man who admits that he's a smart ass, a whiskerless schoolmarm / trying to be / a thirty-foot hard-twist snake / of an arena rope, a black cat in a back alley / behind a bar before he tends to the business of branding. And yet, for all that hard word and all that hard self-appraisal, the persona is able to think machine and horsepower / and horse / I smell cow on the breeze.

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