Gristle: 

Poems and Pictures

Red Shuttleworth 

Red Shuttleworth's new collection of poems (with pictures), Gristle, available on Amazon, is a bridge between his Eclipse of the Sun: Boxing Poems  (University of Nevada Press, 2023) and Wolf Point: Poems (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, forthcoming in late 2024 or early 2025).

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.

Red Shuttleworth writes of the Columbia Basin... rock, sagebrush, rattlers, coyotes, small towns, farmers....

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.

 

Eclipse of the Sun: Boxing Poems, by Red Shuttleworth, was published in the summer of 2023 by University of Nevada Press.

Eclipse of the Sun, Red Shuttleworth, presents poems in homage to boxers... protagonists in a tough, hard sport... valiant men... often those with no recourse but to fight in the ring to rise from poverty... a sport that leaves most pro boxers poor and/or damaged.

Red Shuttleworth, oldest active (amateur or professional) boxer, is trained by Isaac Jones at Sacred Scars Gym in Moses Lake, Washington.  Shuttleworth's boxing manager is California attorney Tim Swift.

 Red Shuttleworth's Pinto Ridge presents his uncollected 2019 poems. 

 

A collection of new poems, WESTWARD FREIGHT, by Red Shuttleworth, is available on Amazon.

 Red Shuttleworth presents photographs and prose poems in Postcards To.

Red Shuttleworth's Wallet Mermaid (a paperback book available on Amazon) received a reading at Sundance Playwrights Lab 1990.  The reading was directed by Lisa Peterson and the dramaturg was Ethan Phillips.  The Sundance cast for Wallet Mermaid: Eden Alair, Doug Hutchison, Daniel Jenkins, Dana Mills,  and Alyssa McGuinness.

 

 

Four Suite Nevada Motel is Red Shuttleworth's further exploration of Abstract Expressionism... with new paintings inspired by Southern Nevada.

Four Suite Nevada Motel: Paintings is available through Amazon... as a paperback book.