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Redneck Poems
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Rusty Barnes (Goodreads Author)
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Published
October 2nd 2010
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I'd give this book to people that say, "Oh, poetry. I don't like it, I don't get it." I'd also give it to people that really like poetry.
It's awesome.
It's awesome.
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I knew from the title that this would be a good read-- I just didn't realize how good! Good, well-written poems from beginning to end! I love it!
Also note the author's name-- it just seems to fit.
Also note the author's name-- it just seems to fit.
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When you sit down to read a book titled, 'Redneck Poems,' you sort of expect the pieces to be full of pickup trucks, beer drinking, backyard fucking, and a few yee-haws. Well there are no yee-haws in Mr. Barnes' collection but there is a truck, a couple of beers, and some serious backyard fucking. The thing is, these poems are not about trucks or beer or fucking; they're about the ways that people interact with each other, the things they do right and the things they do wrong, and the consequenc...more
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I loved it. I mean, I didn't want to put it down and could have read another ten pages or more. Rusty Barnes certainly got my attention. Like he's the real deal and yet, can't help seeing the poet peeking out every once in a while; he has that strange, beautiful way of spinning out a homespun narrative in a down to earth way, but be careful of that carefully meted metaphor that sneaks in there and hits you over the head. Like wham! What happened? Like an epiphany out of nowhere but you get it, y...more
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The main complaint I have on Rusty's books are, they're too dang short. I said this about Breaking it Down, I'm saying it again about Redneck Poems. Mr. Barnes writes folks well, has a spooky ability to get into the skin of any character, man, woman, child, and write them with vivid realism. Be warned, these are not always happy people, but the grit and resolve in which they plow through life in these poems is so inspiring you don't care whether or not they're happy. In fact, you kinda hope they...more
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With a voice so original in every poem, from beginning to end ("Tony little girls in slim skirts/never really appealed; give/me bluegals with high-stockings and lovely round thighs/at two ayem in a stripmall/parking lot...Yeah, boy"), Rusty Barnes' "Redneck Poems" is one of those poetry books I can read all the way through, over and over again.
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I'm not much into poetry as a rule, but this is just great. I especially loved 'Ode To ____'. A bunch of tight little tales that are just as likely to tug your heart-strings as to make you hurl. Bad and sad and stunningly evocative of a time and place. I wish this guy would write a novel. Failing that, just more stuff like this.
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I've enjoyed Barnes's prose for some years now, but had no idea he was a poet as well. Now I know why I enjoy his prose--he has the heart of a poet. Besides being a perceptive writer, he has a gift in capturing youth and love in all its urgent, sloppy, dangerous, touching ways.
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Rusty, you had me at "a paradiddle of skunks" - and it just got better and better from there.
The poems are simultaneously funny and disturbing - and always thought-provoking.
Will these be "printed?" If so, put me on your buyers list.
The poems are simultaneously funny and disturbing - and always thought-provoking.
Will these be "printed?" If so, put me on your buyers list.
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These poems are a celebration, and recognition, of an identity under appreciated and under represented across the indie and literary world, that of rural, even redneck lives.
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Great stuff on a living life level. Interesting descriptions and word choices on a down home theme. Makes poetry readable... Ha!
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Fighting for love in Appalachia. Tuneful, visceral, gritty.
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"High School Chick Fight" and "The Ex-Boyfriend Checks in by Cell Phone" are my favorites, but they're all damn good poems.
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Rusty Barnes grew up in Mosherville, Pennsylvania. He received his BA from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania and his MFA from Emerson College. His work--flash fiction, fiction, poems--has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals, among them Barn Owl Review, Pindeldyboz, Post Road, Red Rock Review, Salt Flats Annual, SmokeLong Quarterly and Wilderness House Literary Review. He edits the liter...more
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