WOLFIE'S LAST CHRISTMAS EVE... 2012, A One-Poem Commemorative Pamphlet

Wolfie's Last Christmas Eve... 2012

a memorial poem

by

Red Shuttleworth

Wolfie and Red Shuttleworth

Wolfie Shuttleworth

Christmas Eve... 2012

Red Shuttleworth's rememberance poem, Wolfie's Last Christmas Eve... 2012, is published for Wolfie's friends in a limited edition by Bunchgrass Press.

Wolfie's Last Christmas Eve... 2012

Wolfie's Last Christmas Eve... 2012

Patches of snow on scab rock.
Wolfie, in late afternoon,
slightly doped on a painkiller,
pain of bone cancer,
paused east of the house...
stared off... into the abyss...
amber-brown eyes sad with love... coming loss....

No snow this Christmas Eve.

On rough ground out back,
a young spruce tree
rises from volcanic soil
enriched with Wolfhound cremains.

If I drive shrub steppe all night,
will Wolfie's ghost
ride the car's back seat,
will I feel the weight of his great head
on my left shoulder, will he say,
in his little-boy-voice,
Stay awake... take us home?

GROUND AND SKY: A Red Shuttleworth One-Poem Chapbook

Ground and Sky

a one-poem chapbook

Red Shuttleworth

To come up with Ground and Sky, Red Shuttleworth revisited and revised a 2011 poem, Do Your Days Measure Up?

Ground and Sky is published as a limited edition Bunchgrass Press chapbook.

Red Shuttleworth

FURROW: A Chapbook Poetry Anthology

Furrow

a chapbook poetry anthology featuring:

Jonathan Chant

(with Shirley)

Tom Clark

Brooke Horvath

Duncan Jones

Red Shuttleworth

Furrow, a chapbook anthology, is published in a limited edition of 52 copies by Bunchgrass Press.

IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: A Red Shuttleworth One-Poem Chapbook

In Spite of Everything

A Red Shuttleworth Poem

A revised version of In Spite of Everything by Red Shuttleworth, first presented on this blog in November of 2011, is now a limited edition Bunchgrass Press chapbook.

Red Shuttleworth

(1970)

MOJAVE RAMBLE-STUMBLE: A Red Shuttleworth One-Poem Chapbook

Mojave Ramble-Stumble

a poem from a decades-old notebook

Red Shuttleworth

Decades ago, back in the 1970's, when Blythe, California, had a third of its present population, back when you could drive into towns like Parker, Arizona, and get asked if you'd like to be a local librarian (without any librarian-school to your credit), I drove the Mojave, stopped at a few motels, drank in a few saloons, filled notebook pages with poems.  In 2011, after fussing and fiddling with an almost-ready-to-be-burned ancient notebook, I posted a version of Mojave Ramble-Stumble on this blog.  The places, people, and times I wrote about so long ago... they no longer exist... not really.

                                              --Red Shuttleworth 

Mojave Preserve... Soda Dry Lake

(Wikipedia Photograph)

Mojave Ramble-Stumble, by Red Shuttleworth, in its final form, is presented as a limited edition Bunchgrass Press chapbook.

ARRANMORE: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Arranmore

four poems by

Red Shuttleworth

Arranmore, a four-poem Red Shuttleworth limited edition chapbook from Bunchgrass Press, includes:

Dublin

Arranmore Island

Killorglin

and

Dungiven

Arranmore Island, 1969

(photo by Red Shuttleworth)

Belfast 1969
(A Ciara Shuttleworth painting,
oil on canvas, 24" by 16", 2005)

T-BONE GRISTLE FROM HANK WILLIAMS' PLATE: A One-Poem Red Shuttleworth Chapbook

T-Bone Gristle

from

Hank Williams' Plate

Red Shuttleworth

Originally entitled Crumbs from Hank Williams' Plate, drastically revised from the version posted on this blog on July 6, 2011, Red Shuttleworth's T-Bone Gristle from Hank Williams' Plate is a Bunchgrass Press limited edition chapbook.

Blog Bonus

Archive Photograph:

Red Shuttleworth, Luke Shuttleworth, J.V. Brummels

(Photo from the cover of  an ancient Red Shuttleworth chapbook,Western Movie, 

Winside, Nebraska, Winter 1987-1988)

PROVISIONS: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Provisions

a suite of poems

Red Shuttleworth

Provisions includes sixteen of the thirty poems/elements (some ruthlessly edited) Red Shuttleworth wrote in early autumn of this year.  Special thanks go to Nuno Santos and Ciara Shuttleworth for assistance with the project. 

The previously blogged Provisions poems are no longer posted on Red Shuttleworth's blog. 

Published in a limited edition by Bunchgrass Press, Red Shuttleworth's Provisions is no longer available.

Red Shuttleworth

UNTIL COLD SUPPER: A Dave Kelly & Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Until Cold Supper

poems by

Dave Kelly

&

Red Shuttleworth

Until Cold Supper presents three Dave Kelly poems (Zoo, Gold Watch Chain, and Building a Dike) and a two poems (Meditative... Speckled Rock and Currency) by Red Shuttleworth.

The cover photograph of Dave Kelly and Red Shuttleworth was taken by the late Dante Thomas at State University of New York at Geneseo on November 8, 1989.

Until Cold Supper is a limited edition Bunchgrass Press chapbook.  

ALL THE ROOM OF CHILDHOOD: A Red Shuttleworth One-Poem Chapbook

All the Room of Childhood

a poem by

Red Shuttleworth

All the Room of Childhood, a Red Shuttleworth poem written in Montana while driving to Bismarck, North Dakota, blogged in 2011, is a limited edition Bunchgrass Press chapbook.

Red Shuttleworth

(September 2014)

DRINKING IN THE DARK: A Red Shuttleworth One-Poem Chapbook

Drinking in the Dark

a one-poem chapbook

Red Shuttleworth

Drinking in the Dark, written by Red Shuttleworth in 2011 and recently revised, is published by Bunchgrass Press in a limited edition.

Red Shuttleworth

(near Ely, Nevada)

THIEF OF SLEEP: A Chapbook Poetry Anthology

Thief of Sleep

a chapbook poetry anthology featuring:

Dave Kelly

(Galveston, Texas, March 1977)

Kirk Robertson

Red Shuttleworth

Thief of Sleep is published in a limited (46 copies) edition by Bunchgrass Press.

To request a copy of Thief of Sleep, correspond with one of the featured poets.

FLIGHT STATUS: A One-Poem Red Shuttleworth Chapbook

Flight Status

one poem

Red Shuttleworth

Flight Status, a one-poem Red Shuttleworth chapbook published in a limited edition by Bunchgrass Press, was written in 2012 and, when presented on Red's blog, was entitled Insist on Genuine Parts.  The poem has recently undergone a substantial revision.

The blue 65-pound generic-brand cover stock for this chapbook magically attracts and absorbs fingerprints.  Apologies!

To request a copy of Flight Status, correspond with Red Shuttleworth.

 Red Shuttleworth

BOUQUET: A Chapbook Poetry Anthology

Bouquet

a chapbook poetry anthology featuring:

James Bertolino

Dave Kelly

(Galveston, Texas, March 19, 1977)

Red Shuttleworth

Eamonn Wall

The cover photo, Dixon, Montana, Bar, is by Nuno Santos:

Nuno Santos

(Columbia Basin, Washington, September 2014)

Bouquet is published in a limited (44 copies) edition by Bunchgrass Press.

To request a copy of Bouquet, correspond with one of the included poets.

CONSOLATIONS: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Consolations

four poems

Red Shuttleworth

Consolations, a Red Shuttleworth limited edition chapbook from Bunchgrass Press, features a Jack Fulton photograph (The Long Branch,Luning, Nevada, 1988) on its cover.  

The four poems featured in Consolations are:

A Strange Smile with an Underbite

Barely Erect Gravestones... Fortuna, North Dakota

Western Interstates

and

Balding, Frayed, Antique Store Buffalo Coat

Red Shuttleworth
(Red in his writing studio... 2014)

Jack Fulton
(Distinguished Photographer)

DOC HOLLIDAY'S SKELETON: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Doc Holliday's Skeleton Takes

A Saint Patrick's Day Walk,

Leadville, Colorado, 1887

a poem

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth's 2007 one-poem chapbook about Doc Holliday in Leadville, Colorado, first published in an online edition of True West magazine, is available (for free... as long as supplies last) to those who request a copy by email or by regular mail.

Red Shuttleworth is a three-time recipient

of Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Poetry.

In 2007 True West magazine named Shuttleworth

Best Living Western Poet.

CATCHING UP WITH THE DEAD #4: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Catching Up with the Dead

#4

poems

Red Shuttleworth

With the publication of Red Shuttleworth's Catching Up with the Dead #4 (in a severely limited edition) by Bunchgrass Press, the four-chapbook series comes to completion.

The following five poems are presented:

Thomas MacGreevy

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick

Gertrude Stein

and

Rock and Shadow

Red Shuttleworth

and

Irish Wolfhound Peaches Shuttleworth

(Photo by Nuno Santos)

CATCHING UP WITH THE DEAD #3: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Catching Up with the Dead
#3

four poems

Red Shuttleworth

Catching Up with the Dead #3, a four-poem Red Shuttleworth (limited edition) chapbook from Bunchgrass Press, continues a series.  It contains the following poems:

W.C. Fields

Lucia Anna Joyce

Mongke Khan

and

Wolfie Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth

(1989, Stillwater, Minnesota,

at the abandoned state penitentiary

where the Younger Brothers were incarcerated

after the bungled James-Younger Great Northfield Raid)

CATCHING UP WITH THE DEAD #2: A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Catching Up with the Dead

#2

five poems

Red Shuttleworth

Catching Up with the Dead #2, Red Shuttleworth's second chapbook in this (limited edition) series from Bunchgrass Press, presents the following poems (a couple slightly revised from their initial posting on this blog):

Isadora Duncan

Vladimir Lenin

Robert Motherwell

Anna Serge Odnovalenko Napoli

and

Andy Warhol

As copies of Catching Up with the Dead #2 are limited and will soon be scarce, if you would like one, promptly correspond with Red Shuttleworth.

Red Shuttleworth