Friday, December 27, 2013

WHEN YESTERDAY: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook



When Yesterday

poems

Red Shuttleworth



Red Shuttleworth's first poetry chapbook of 2014, When Yesterday, is pure gold Western Americana, featuring:

Bisbee, Arizona, 1912

Wanette, Oklahoma, 1917

When Yesterday Was My Name: Four Short Poems

Portrait of a Bride Beside a Piano in Helper, Utah

Brass Rivets and Cracked Teeth: Coldwater, Kansas



When Yesterday is published in a limited edition by Bunchgrass Press.   It is available... for a brief period of time... by written request to Red Shuttleworth.



Peaches Shuttleworth,
on December 23, 2013,
an Irish Wolfhound at Five and a Half Months of Age...
about 28-inches at her shoulders, weighed-in at 89 pounds





Wednesday, December 25, 2013

ONE YEAR GONE: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook



One Year Gone

three poems

Red Shuttleworth


One Year Gone, three poems written during Wolfie Shuttleworth's last days in December of 2012, is issued as a limited edition (22 copies) chapbook by Bunchgrass Press for Wolfie's friends. 

Wolfie Shuttleworth perished, at the age of five and a half, on January 4, 2013 at Washington State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital where he was unsuccessfully treated for osteosarcoma.

Young Wolfie Shuttleworth
with Red Shuttleworth

One Year Gone presents three poems:

The Droll Impossible

A Few Days

Ice-Burdened Moonlight

Playwrights and Poets:
Wolfie Shuttleworth and Red Shuttleworth



Special Thanks to Tom Clark for his encouragement.

Although this chapbook is not generally available, the three contained poems can be read on this blog.








Monday, December 16, 2013

A ROUNDER'S 31 QUINTESSENTIAL BOOKS FROM THE AMERICAN WEST

Poet Paul Zarzyski
~~~

A Rounder's

31 Quintessential Books

from the American West





Richard Avedon
In the American West



Ralph Beer
The Blind Corral





Barbara Brinson Curiel
Mexican Jenny and Other Poems



Edward Dorn
Way More West: New and Selected Poems



Gretel Ehrlich
The Solace of Open Spaces



Loren D. Estleman
Bloody Season



Jim Fergus
The Wild Girl



William Goyen
The House of Breath




Ron Hansen
Desperadoes


Jim Harrison
Dalva



Kent Haruf
The Tie That Binds




William Heyen
Crazy Horse in Stillness



Julie Jensen
Stray Dogs



Elmer Kelton
The Time It Never Rained



William Kittredge
Owning It All



Adrian  C. Louis
Savage Sunsets



Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian



Max McCoy
Hellfire Canyon



Thomas McGuane
Nobody's Angel



Larry McMurtry
Leaving Cheyenne



Michael Ondaatje
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid


Annie Proulx
Fine Just the Way It Is



Kirk Robertson
How the Light Gets In



Lucia St. Clair Robson
Ride the Wind



Billy Joe Shaver
Honky Tonk Hero



Sam  Shepard
Fool for Love and Other Plays



Red Shuttleworth
Western Settings



Jack Spicer
Billy the Kid





Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas



Richard S. Wheeler
Masterson



Paul Zarzyski
All This Way for the Short Ride


Note:
Coming up with about three dozen quintessential books from the American West is a tough task.  No excuses, but another couple dozen or so Western writers (and their books) could have (should have?) been listed, like Edward Abbey, Rick Bass, J.V. Brummels, Norman H. Russell, James Welch, and Peter Wild.


    The Late Great Wolfie Shuttleworth
with Red Shuttleworth



Most recent update: October 10, 2022

Friday, December 6, 2013

MAILBOX: DECEMBER POEMS, a Red Shuttleworth chapbook


Mailbox: December Poems

Red Shuttleworth


Red Shuttleworth's Mailbox: December Poems, with an epigraph from James Clarence Mangan ("I turn from summer's blooms and dyes..."), contains five (mostly revised) poems from 2011:

Not a Short Leash

River of the Sun

Hush Time

What's in the Mailbox?

A Highway Rest Stop Nearby

Mailbox: December Poems is printed in Garamond on 32-pound antique laid ivory paper with a 24-pound banana fiber paper (natural fleck) cover.

Issued by Bunchgrass Press in a limited edition.

 Red Shuttleworth

Saturday, November 30, 2013

1980 Durham Bulls

1980 Durham Bulls

After a number of years of absence, the Durham Bulls were brought back into organized baseball in 1980 when Miles Wolff gained a working agreement with the Atlanta Braves in 1980.


(From the Durham Bulls program: Bulls Manager "Dirty Al" Gallagher, Bulls General Manager Pete Bock, and Atlanta Braves Vice President Hank Aaron.)



Miles Wolff


Under Wolff's brilliant executive leadership, the Bulls financially thrived in the Carolina League as the Braves' top Class A team.  The Atlanta Braves hired former Giants and Angels third baseman "Dirty Al" Gallagher as field manager and  filled that first (1980) team roster with terrific players (several would enjoy Major League careers).



"Dirty Al" Gallagher


Eventually the famous Dull Durham movie was made.  

Below is a complete roster of the 1980 Durham Bulls:

1B   Gerald Perry
2B   Jeff Mathews
2B   Andres Forbes
2B   Mike Garcia
2B   Kevin Rigby
2B   Mark Lucas
3B   Tommy Thompson
3B   Johnny Lee
SS   Paul Runge
SS   Paul Zuvella
SS   Miguel Sosa
OF  Albert Hall
OF  Ronnie Rudd
OF  Albert "Zeke" Moore
OF  Brett Butler
OF  Milt Thompson
OF  Glen Bockhorn
C     Steve Stieb
C     Blane McDonald
C     Brian Snitker
P     Juan Alduey
P     Jose Alvarez
P     Rick Behenna
P     Arcilio Castaigne
P     Dom Chiti
P     Rick Coatney
P     Joe Cowley
P     Larry Edwards
P     Billy Gore
P     Craig Jones
P     Russ Kerdolff
P     Daniel Lucia
P     Ike Pettaway
P     Louis "Al" Pratt
P     Gary Reiter
P     Gil Ryan
P     Mike Smith
P     Pete Teixeira
P     Duane Theiss

Manager             "Dirty Al" Gallagher
Pitching Coach    Bob Veale
Pitching Coach    Leo Mazzone
Hitting Coach      Luke Appling
Bullpen Coach     Red Shuttleworth
Trainer                 Gene Lane

Franchise Owner   Miles Wolff
General Manager  Pete Bock




Durham Bulls Players

Juan Alduey

Rick Behenna

Glen Bockhorn


Brett Butler


Dom Chiti


Rick Coatney


Joe Cowley

Larry Edwards

Andres Forbes

Mike Garcia

Billy "Lance" Gore

Albert Hall

Craig Jones

Johnny Lee

Jeff Matthews

Blane McDonald

Alvin "Zeke" Moore

Gerald Perry

Ike Pettaway

Louis "Al" Pratt
Gary Reiter

Ronnie Rudd


Paul Runge


Gil Ryan


Mike Smith


Brian Snitker


Steve Stieb


Milt Thompson


Tommy Thompson


Paul Zuvella



Durham Bulls Manager and Coaches


Leo Mazzone and "Dirty Al" Gallagher


Luke Appling
Leo Mazzone


Bob Veale
Red Shuttleworth


Gene Lane