Bledsoe
Subtitle: a poem
By: by William Wright
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Huntsville, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933896762
Subjects: Mothers and sons; Death; Mute persons; Tumors; Poetry; Assisted suicide; Brain; Patients; Male caregivers
Table of contents: title: Behind the brick pits of Yancey County Waterworks; title: Far down in the parched pits of summertime; title: The snake spells plagued him; title: On the spine of the ridge; title: I see he's a special child, Miss; title: She asked to speak to the child alone; title: Grown little, nine-years-old, Bledsoe upset; title: In those slow autumns; title: Harvest paradox, autumn's pilfer; title: Pulp of dying mountain town; title: Let him be shut of us, Lord; title: He walked lonesome; title: His father who brought him melon candy; title: Unlike his father; title: In years he mended; title: Carry me to the doctor, Boy; title: He chose silence in that simple light; title: Heart-pound, blood-rush; title: What they told me is I don't have long; title: In middle age, in those first leaf-strains; title: Dear God of the dead-haunted heart; title: Nights he moseyed through the house; title: No sheets; title: Found his father's rum jug; title: Once, when he woke before dawn; title: Death of an orchard; title: Spring came, winged seeds lifted to sun; title: To wash her. Up in the dank room, her body sketched in heat; title: She slept in fits and fever; title: Then the world to black; title: Time to leave you, Boy; title: In the keening house, in the night's arc; title: Went; title: Dusk comes, heat stays, still; title: A blackness amplified, greenness insinuated; title: Something deep in Durant's vitals; title: They find him near noon.