Heartwood & Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

McEwen, R.F.

Poetry

Slow Tempo Pr

White River is a raw cut portion of story telling that resurrects a past thought forever gone. The cleanest effect of McEwen’s skill is how he disappears as his specific breed of ancestors resurrects in tongue to tell their story with truth and power. These cowboys and Indians and aunts and uncles who populate White River revive a world where such men and women existed. The author's gift for conjuring this recent past in its authentic context, with lean, effortless poetry, is magical.”David Rooks

Casey Joe MacBride's White River (Canseco-Keck History)

United States

Stephen F. Austin University Press

And There's Been Talk . . . is a collection of snapshots centered around the lives of those living in the Midwest spanning a total of fifty years. This collection of short stories explores family ties, family expectations, work promotions and demotions, jail break and all that follows, and a variety of other life’s obstacles. McEwen’s writing style is raw and eccentric. His word choice and style allows his stories to be easily read and processed. He brings the characters to life easily and creates a laugh-out-loud novel. McEwen provides the reader with an inside look into life in the Midwest from the Irish-set Montana in 1920 all the way Indiana, South Dakota, and Nebraska in the 1970’s and on. And There's Been Talk . . . is a fast-paced, descriptive, and must-read account of life in the Midwest told from a variety of different socioeconomic backgrounds, family situations, and ties that bind us together.

And There's Been Talk . . .

A true American demotic, Bill's Boys is a difficult register, but here's a poet able to tackle it.. Not since the late, great, Thomas McGrath has a poet spoken so clearly of working class life in its own true tone, as McEwen does here in grim stories from hardworking lives, unsparing, unsentimental but shot through with love and courage -- not least the courage of unsparing truths from the dark intersections between Irish and American histories, so rarely spoken of, much less examined. &nbsp; Without the whiskey he still had his spells of standing-steady rolling when he'd grab the earless side of his damp head and squeeze it hard, then knuckle it. The first time I remember it his eyes began to writhe like molten stones. From corded neck on down his convoluted body rolled and plunged and pitched while standing still, his feet clamped solid on the pitching floor. And while I cowered behind the sofa bed I saw my mother leap beyond the kitchen with a wet dish rag she flailed against his head and face until he stopped, and she had flung herself about him like a throbbing shawl.

Bill's Boys

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