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The Hollow Log Lounge - Poems

English · Paperback / Softback

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"This is no fairy tale. /It's all fantastic and bizarre and true. It's my life, / a raspy song that sounds better if you sing along." The men and women who live and work near Opelika, Alabama, gather at the Hollow Log Lounge. There, under the watchful eye of the stuffed fox behind the bar, they unload their gripes and worries, tell their stories, argue, joke, commune, complain, and confess. In this collection of poems, R. T. Smith paints a vividly imagined portrait of the community in this small-town bar, capturing the chorus of the patrons' voices echoing off the knotted wood-paneled walls. Smith's stand-in, Sam Buckhannon, scribbles stories heard and overheard as tongues loosened by liquor spin out monologues in which southern idiom and vernacular seem perfectly at home within the constraints of measured verse.


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R. T. Smith

Summary

The men and women who live and work near Opelika, Alabama, gather at the Hollow Log Lounge. There, under the watchful eye of the stuffed fox, they unload their gripes and worries, tell their stories, argue, joke, commune, complain, and confess. This collection of poems paints an imagined portrait of the community in the small-town bar.

Product details

Authors R T Smith, R. T. Smith
Publisher University Of Illinois Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 10.07.2003
 
EAN 9780252071379
ISBN 978-0-252-07137-9
Dimensions 162 mm x 209 mm x 7 mm
Weight 122 g
Series Illinois Poetry Series
Illinois Poetry
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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