Title

Wolf Heart

Authors

Karon Luddy

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Description

Karon Luddy is an exciting talent, the product of a vivid, conflicted experience of Upstate South Carolina by a quick, rebellious temperament. In this respect, these free-verse poems are highly original as a body yet not without precedent in American literature. For example, there is Stephen Crane's rebellion against the Methodist religion of his mother in The Black Riders and Other Lines, a savagely compressed Whitman or extenuated Dickinson. The pleasure of Luddy's "Family Reunion" derives from combining "Mama's closing statement to God," "big-hearted heathen" Aunt Margaret's "chocolate silk pie," and "my father's dented flask." In another poem, delirium tremens is pronounced a symptom of the father's attempted escape from hospital "Naked as Adam." But when discharged, his eyes shine "like black marbles he'd won from the Devil."

Publisher

Clemson University

Publication Date

2007

Comments

Copyright 2007, Clemson University For more information on the Clemson University Digital Press, please visit: http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/cudp/index.htm

Recommended Citation

Wolf Heart, by Karon Luddy (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2007), vi+38 pp. Paper. ISBN 0-9771263-5-8