Description: Jack B. Bedell's poems celebrate the people, traditions, and landscapes that have shaped him throughout his life. The poetry collected in Bone-Hollow, True represents over two decades of Bedell's published work, all driven by an intense love of story and heritage. From first page to last, this book revels in the culture that makes south Louisiana, and Bedell's poetry, so unique. At once contemplative and conversational, these poems consistently find the simple beauty of the world at hand, relying on the power of narrative to drive it home for all of us.
Review Quotes: Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONE
"Jack B. Bedell knows the ancient power of story to hold things together: societies, beliefs, clans, families, love. He knows too that that power has never diminished in time. Bedell takes himself again and again to the force and truth and flight the story always contains if it is a true story. And, it is his particular genius that forges those stories into the eloquent and elegant poems of Bone-Hollow, True. Here is a poet whose practice makes him a master of every part of the poem, but he will startle you with how beautifully he manages storytelling as his primary argument for art in the service of the lives he knows from the inside out."
--Darell Bourque, author of In Ordinary Light