by
Barton Sutter
American
Poets Continuum Series
In Farewell to
the Starlight in Whiskey Barton Sutter explores the wilderness
along the Canadian border, sings about love in midlife, meditates
on the roots of war, attacks political leaders, recounts the peculiar
heroics of an epileptic Vietnam vet, writes a "personal"
ad in the voice of a chickadee, and talks to a dead jackpine.
A deft practitioner of meter and rhyme, Sutter is a fireside storyteller
who makes the language thump and sing.
Sweet
Jesus
I found
you, my lush, curvaceous savior,
Nailed
to the old rugged cross of your life
As
if cursed, caught, condemned to stay there.
Sweet
Jesus with breasts and black hair,
I took
you down, dressed your wounds,
Woke
you from you midlife swoon,
And
made you my unlawful wife.
You
drank the gall of my despair
But
swore there was another way.
Our
bodies would be the wine and bread
On
which we fed. We came alive there,
Nourished
by grief, by tears and saliva.
And,
lo, the stone of sorrow was rolled away;
Together,
we rose from the dead.
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 1-929918-57-7
Price: $14.95
Publishing Date: October 2004
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