HOMAGE: A New Red Shuttleworth Chapbook

Homage

poems

Red Shuttleworth

The six-pack of poems in Homage acknowledges the  four and a half decades of influence certain writers have had on my poetry.

To some measure, these homage poems (to Samuel Beckett, John Berryman, Johannes Bobrowski, Dag Hammarskjold, Randall Jarrell, Yasunari Kawabata, and Ivan Turgenev) are exercises, though I hope they rise above that.

A great number of other writers have influenced me as much, or more, than those I try to honor with my poems in this small collection.  My first influence, in the summer of 1967, as I wrote my first poem, was William Butler Yeats.  The trigger for that first poem was a beautiful woman who ran nude, when the fog was thick, on San Francisco's Ocean Beach.  I thought, way back then, that I could write a poem worthy of her....  She was my first Muse.

I heard many a glad Samuel Beckett anecdote from his friend Kay Boyle and plenty of disconcerting, bittersweet, sometimes hilarious stories about John Berryman from William Dickey (Berryman's student at the Iowa Writers Workshop). I am grateful.

                 ~ Red Shuttleworth  

TO THE CONTRARY: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

To the Contrary

New Poems

from

Red Shuttleworth

To the Contrary is a limited edition chapbook of Red Shuttleworth poems.

GOING-SIXTY-MEZCAL-EIGHT: A New Red Shuttleworth Chapbook

Going-Sixty-Mezcal-Eight

a new

poetry chapbook

from

Red Shuttleworth