Gristle:
Poems and Pictures
Red Shuttleworth
The poems in Gristle survey the contemporary American West, dive into family legacies, take on Existential Errands (inspiration from Norman Mailer's classic book), and celebrate and curse the transmogrifying sage-steppe of the Columbia Basin in central Washington State... toward the sage-steppe becoming a cheatgrass prairie.
One poem in Gristle is on Geronimo's take on Christianity while he was a prisoner-of-war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Poems about family include one on a paternal line great-great grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Manley, who was a common foot soldier in the Confederate Army... proud infantryman for the entire Civil War.
A few poems in Gristle are inspired by Red's constant companion and physical fitness trainer, an Irish Wolfhound, Tara Finvola.
Gristle: Poems, by Red Shuttleworth, is A Bunchgrass Press Project... available on Amazon.