Description:
The Berceuse International Youth League & The St. Herménégilde Society for General Upkeep & Social Benefaction Presents A Melancholic Fantasia in the Tradition of Lonely Swamp Pop, a Collage of the Culture & Peculiar History of Our Parish as Figured in the Tragicomic Soleil Family, Especially Our Unofficial Town Poet Laureate, Burnside Soleil, in Conjunction with Gus Babineaux, an Historian of Dubious Origins & Compiler of This Fine Book, Berceuse Parish
The strangest, most specious damnable compendium of cadien life . . .
Review Quotes:
In his first book, Burnside Soleil inhabits a myth that is almost real, of family, of friends, living and departed, and of the Acadian culture in Louisiana. Soleil's brilliant, close-grained and perfectly worded lyrical portraits are enlarged by the historical and cultural context of a second curatorial narrator, Gus Babineaux. Soleil's transcendent accomplishment is to break the heart and restore it to laughter with redemptive irony. Look elsewhere for promise. Berceuse Parish is all there now, and it is a masterwork.
--Rodney Jones, author of Alabama and Elegy for the Southern Drawl
--Rodney Jones