Music of the Swamp George J. Hawkins to those tired of poetry

to those tired of poetry that makes no sense

relaxing into a circle of total illumination

Published: 12/11/2015

Author: Tonya Wilhelm

The collection tracks the poet through a landscape of intimate places--an ancestral home in Scotland

Music of the Swamp George J. Hawkins to those tired of poetry"This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page." Southern Living Lewis Nordan's fiction invents its own world always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy's utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten year old Sugar Mecklin's world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely