The Hollow Log Lounge - Poems

"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.

About the author

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