Coal Man's Son is a gothic coal-camp mad / sacred fever-dream that remythologizes the origins of both God and Man, and what came between them, in a suite of visionary poems feat.
Author(s): T Crunk
46 Pages
Poetry, General
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Coal Man's Son is a gothic coal-camp mad / sacred fever-dream that remythologizes the origins of both God and Man, and what came between them, in a suite of visionary poems feat. the triune Man Made of Fire, His Blind Crow and His One-Eyed Bone.
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Tony Crunk knows coal country intimately, Biblically, and mythically. In Coal Man's Son, he gives us an allegory drawn from deep, personal understanding, with characters such as "one-eyed bone" and "the blind crow," "Old Scratchfiddle" and "blood boy," evoking "ten thousand years/of sorrow/and salt," and bones in the devil's butcher shop that "glow like radio tubes." These haunting poems make us laugh and sing and ponder. Part trickster tale and part tall tale, part jazz and part blues, part folklife and part folklore, Coal Man's Son is another marvelous collection by a master of the craft.-Peter F. Murphy, author of Underwater and Maps of Three Continents
If ever Paul Celan imagined his blazeair darkruddering through our sweet Devil's furnace then we have Crunk's One Eyed Bone surfing hellwinds in the coal mines of Kentucky dark, dark. Coal Man's Son testifies that as "death was much in demand" (Celan) in those festering sores called Auschwitz and Buchenwald, then shooting dice in hell holes seamed with carbon selfsames, and but so...on it goes. Down in the earthfire we go with Crunk, scorched and none the wiser with two holes in our coffin-one to let the devil in, one for the ashed spirit to rise, yes rise.-Russell Helms, author of The Ground Catches Everything and Fade
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .11 Inches (D)
Weight: .15 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 46
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: General
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Format: Paperback
Author: T Crunk
Language: English
Street Date: February 10, 2023
TCIN: 1008945803
UPC: 9798888381052
Item Number (DPCI): 247-49-0644
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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