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Red Dirt Boy

John G. Hartness

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Description:Red Dirt Boy is a collection of Southern-fried, beer-soaked poetry with a tent revival flair. John Hartness draws on years of living in the rural south to share the laughter, tears, heartaches and fears of living, loving and drinking in the modern American South.Hartness vacillates between the profane and the profound in this collection, tackling cancer, drug abuse, strippers and young love with equal parts pathos and humor. Red Dirt Boy is recommended for anyone with a love of Johnny Cash, Steve Earl, moonshine and fried chicken.From the book:Chelsea (for Gina)I don’t see him dragging a stolen Food Lion grocery cart uphillloaded down with a hot water heater and cans picked upoff the side of the roadheading for the recycling center hoping for just enoughto get another bottle of get me through the night.I don’t see her pay for a corn dog and courtesy cup of icewith pennies and haul the seven mismatched garbage bagsthat make up her whole world out into the heat of the August afternoon.I don’t see him sitting in the rain mumbling at nothingand carving names into his wiry limbs with a rusty jacknifewhile his own blood drips pinkand runs off down the sidewalk,puddling for a second around my Ecco loafers.But I see youkneeling in front of a wild-eyed Walt Whitman madmanto say “hey man, you alright?”I look at you in your duct-taped Doc Martensthrift-store Dickie’s work shirtmaybe a dollar and a half in your own pocketwhile you kneel on the wet concreteto touch the face of a strangerand for a minutebefore the world washes my vision away againI seeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Red Dirt Boy. To get started finding Red Dirt Boy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Falstaff Books

Release: 2011

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Description: Red Dirt Boy is a collection of Southern-fried, beer-soaked poetry with a tent revival flair. John Hartness draws on years of living in the rural south to share the laughter, tears, heartaches and fears of living, loving and drinking in the modern American South.Hartness vacillates between the profane and the profound in this collection, tackling cancer, drug abuse, strippers and young love with equal parts pathos and humor. Red Dirt Boy is recommended for anyone with a love of Johnny Cash, Steve Earl, moonshine and fried chicken.From the book:Chelsea (for Gina)I don’t see him dragging a stolen Food Lion grocery cart uphillloaded down with a hot water heater and cans picked upoff the side of the roadheading for the recycling center hoping for just enoughto get another bottle of get me through the night.I don’t see her pay for a corn dog and courtesy cup of icewith pennies and haul the seven mismatched garbage bagsthat make up her whole world out into the heat of the August afternoon.I don’t see him sitting in the rain mumbling at nothingand carving names into his wiry limbs with a rusty jacknifewhile his own blood drips pinkand runs off down the sidewalk,puddling for a second around my Ecco loafers.But I see youkneeling in front of a wild-eyed Walt Whitman madmanto say “hey man, you alright?”I look at you in your duct-taped Doc Martensthrift-store Dickie’s work shirtmaybe a dollar and a half in your own pocketwhile you kneel on the wet concreteto touch the face of a strangerand for a minutebefore the world washes my vision away againI seeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Red Dirt Boy. To get started finding Red Dirt Boy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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