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.

The Poetry Collection... University at Buffalo...

The Poetry Collection

at

University at Buffalo Libraries

Thanks to Dr. Michael Basinski, Curator of The Poetry Collection at University at Buffalo's University Libraries, thanks to his kindness, almost all of Red Shuttleworth's poetry chapbooks and books finally have a home.

The Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo is the largest, most complete repository of modern poetry in the English language, containing well over 100,000 volumes.  The Collection also houses recordings, magazines, broadsheets, notebooks, photographs... and the James Joyce Archive.

Dr. Michael Basinski

Curator

The Poetry Collection, University Libraries

University at Buffalo

Red Shuttleworth is quite pleased to have most of his books and chapbooks catalogued... available at The Poetry Collection, including decades-old chapbooks.

Red Shuttleworth's Western Movie,

published decades ago

by Knute Skinner's Signpost Press,

is available at The Poetry Collection,

University at Buffalo.

Red Shuttleworth's Western Settings,
published in 2000
by University of Nevada Press,
winner of the first Spur Award for Poetry (2001),
is available at The Poetry Collection,
University at Buffalo.

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)

Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, in Collective Memory

Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, in Collective Memory

(A crayon sketch by Red Shuttleworth)

Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, in Collective Memory

Child-cry of swine on Market Day,

all-night Guinness-full revelers...

a lumpy bed-'n-breakfast bed for you.

When the fever rises up your spine,

you return to a room on a three-pubs street,

glad-thank Mrs. Breen (perhaps her name).

Everything is changed now, she says,

proprietress, smiling bearer of aspirin

and tea, collector of American stamps.

It's the middle of touristy June.

Be clever, Yank, and sweat it out.

She heavens you with five blankets,

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

Arranmore Island, County Donegal, Ireland, in Collective Memory

Arranmore Island, County Donegal, Ireland, in Collective Memory

(A crayon sketch by Red Shuttleworth)

Arranmore Island, County Donegal, Ireland, in Collective Memory

April sideways rain on Leabgarrow strand.

You read Peadar O'Donnell on a bunk

by a salt-streak window, The Gates Flew Open.

The Youth Hostel is middle-of-the-week

empty... you are king of solitude, days away

from love... Flemish backpack girl in corduroy.

This was decades ago, before any Arranmore pub

grew (broken beer bottle to the neck) murderous.

Daylight at 3 a.m., she fries eggs and  pork sausage.

A kiss from the Flemish girl each time a donkey

brays its grief, Ochone, ochone, at least I'm not

a pint of an inbred mutt, deaf in all four ears. 

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)

Dublin, Ireland, in Collective Memory

Dublin, Ireland, in Collective Memory

(A crayon sketch by Red Shuttleworth)

Dublin, Ireland, in Collective Memory

Harrowing up-glance at churn-of-cloud,

the bustle of O'Connell Street...

a cloud of mad starlings from another year.

You wander north to the Gresham Hotel,

no money for a suite with a wide view,

no cash for even a closet of a room.

Rain comes hard, nails right through

your waterproof Gaelic-green zip-up

Derby-of-San Francisco tourist jacket.

Smell of damp wool, cigarettes, and chips...

neon bar signs buzz like dazed autumn flies:

you sober-jag east along the pewter Liffey.

Wells, Nevada, in Collective Memory

Wells, Nevada, in Collective Memory

(A crayon sketch by Red Shuttleworth)

Wells, Nevada, in Collective Memory

AC dying in the car, you drag into town.
Earthquake: saloons and deadfall motels

flaked and crumbled like desert-dry coyote bones.

The dustiest, cheapest-ever Best Western motel,
the Sage, is empty, a cavity not quite drilled-out...
no gold filling... abandoned for a decade or more.

You think to kick-in a door for a noon nap.
Up Sixth Street, you buy a juicy cheeseburger
at Luther's, wash it down with an iced Coors.

You shamble Wells, historic district demo'd,
wonder if you'd be happy on a rocky hill
overlooking so much fibbed or fabled loss.

Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada, in Collective Memory

Mackenzie, B.C., Canada, in Collective Memory

(A crayon sketch by Red Shuttleworth)

Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada, in Collective Memory

Frigid trench in the Rocky Mountains,

instant sawmill town, arteries to a wilderness,

cinder block motel, snow to top single-wides:

you spend a winter trudging wolf trails,

find a moss-covered black bear skull, dip it

repeatedly in shellac: it glows holy-jade.

Your neighbor, a trapper, gives you beaver

and lynx heads, Boiled-off meat is tasty.

The wolfhound refuses cat-stench lynx.

Winter runs-out: a grizzly walks through

a glass door into the cheesy half-mall,

can't find an April-plaid jacket that fits.

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)