The wedding guest
By: Floyd Collins.
Publisher: Ptarmigan Chapbooks
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Fayetteville, Ark
Language: eng
Format: Chapbook
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: American South
Genres: Poetry
First sentence: At noon I part the curtain to so much sun
It's like slashing a sack of grain.
Toward dawn the wedding rout retired
The searing fiddle,
Left the wine
To brood in its cask.
Description: Book Description:
The Wedding Guest, by Floyd Collins, is a chapbook selection of 14 poems filled with contemporary imagery of the everyday American South, the antique and hopeful moments that endure through death, struggles, and disappointments.
The Wedding Guest was published in a limited edition of three hundred copies, fifty of which are signed and numbered by the poet.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CARD NUMBER 87-90458 

Publisher comments:
All these poems, some in slightly different versions, were previously published in periodicals such as Chariton Review, Greenfield Review, Intro 16, Memphis State Review, Poetry Now, Porch, Racoon, and Southern Poetry Review.

At the time, Floyd had about two dozen very good new poems that seemed to fall naturally into two themes. Of these, we selected fourteen that we very much admired and wanted to print together.

I think this chapbook project inspired Floyd to some excellent re-writing, and it turned into an elegant little book.

Each archival quality chapbook is hand sewn and includes an original etching by Daniel Humphrey as endpapers.