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2021

Format:	Book
Author:	Bedell, Jack, 1966- author.
Title:	Color all maps new : poems / Jack B. Bedell.
Publisher, Date:	Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2021.
Description:	67 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:	"A grandmother's beignet recipe passed on to a granddaughter, a lost lake restored by heavy rain, a dead father's wisdom returned in dreams-over and again, the poems in Color All Maps New offer revision and restoration, light and hope. In turns personal, ecological, cultural, and fantastic, these poems promise new maps to navigate damaged territories"-- Provided by publisher.
Genre:	Poetry.
Other Author:	Mercer University Press.
LCCN:	2020050711
ISBN:	9780881467772 0881467774
Other Number:	1226078017
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In his thirteenth collection of poetry, Jack B. Bedell examines moments of reparation and continuance in the face of loss. A grandmother's beignet recipe passed on to her granddaughter, a lost lake restored by heavy rain, a dead father's wisdom returned in dreams--over and again, the poems in Color All Maps New offer revision and restoration, light and hope. By turns personal, ecological, cultural, and fantastic, these poems promise new maps to navigate damaged territories. The rituals of family and South Louisiana culture share space with folklore and history here. From his home state's wetlands to its prairies and into the recesses of his own dreamscapes, Bedell draws maps toward recovery and reinvention in these poems, filling all space left empty by death, or storm, or slow erosion with colors of possibility and the hope of new growth.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	p. vii
	Just a Beginning	p. 1
I.
	Lines for a Country Song	p. 5
	Bourré	p. 6
	New Growth Moon	p. 7
	Couplets, Interstitial	p. 8
	Communal	p. 9
	Gulf, Waves	p. 10
	Scales, Light	p. 11
	Bulleye	p. 12
	Mestayer	p. 13
	Silkies	p. 14
II.
	Lines for a 13-Year-Old Todd Marinovich	p. 17
	Proche	p. 18
	Course Correction	p. 19
	Snake Pit	p. 20
	Crux, Issue	p. 21
	Sassaquois	p. 22
	[My AM Dial Finds His Voice]	p. 23
	Ruddock	p. 24
	Catch, Memory	p. 25
	Dream, Distraction	p. 26
III.
	Lines for Lake DeCade	p. 29
	Fall, Light	p. 30
	When They Turned the Banks	p. 31
	Kate Mulvaney in Maurepas	p. 33
	Porch, Stew	p. 34
	Island Road	p. 35
	Isle de Jean Charles	p. 36
	Behind the Camp	p. 38
	Nuage	p. 39
	Exhumation	p. 40
IV.
	Lines for Jonny Wilkinson	p. 43
	Beignets	p. 44
	How Many Times	p. 45
	The Gacy Murder House	p. 46
	[So He Picks This Spot Off I-55]	p. 47
	Last Island, 1856	p. 48
	Last Island, Return	p. 49
	Prayer Does Not Have To	p. 50
	Space, Release	p. 51
	All of Us, And None	p. 52
V.
	End of the Line	p. 57
	Island Deer	p. 58
	The Secret	p. 59
	Jefferson Island 1980,	p. 60
	Like Bread for Supper	p. 61
	Summer, Botany Lesson	p. 62
	Dream, Lines	p. 63
	Breakfast, Continuum	p. 64
	My Daughter Says Tell Me	p. 65
	Dream, in Open Chord	p. 66
	About the Author	p. 67

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