Sundown Explains Nothing: New and Selected Poems - Paperback

by Jim Barnes (Author)

In his new and selected, Jim Barnes crafts bliss from the urgent and allusive with an enigmatic voice that is often mysterious.

A CHOCTAW CHIEF HELPS PLAN
A FESTIVAL IN MEMORY OF
PUSHMATAHA'S BIRTHDAY

We know he liked chock beer and watermelon
and raced sleek ponies in the dead of night.
We'll give him that. We'll have to open up
the valley to whites and those Chickasaws,
or it's sure no go. But we'll keep it pure. . .

A lot depends on image. Use your masks.
Don't wear boots. Speak the language if you can. . .

Author Biography

JIM BARNES received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. From 2003 to 2006 he served as Distinguished Professor of English at Brigham Young University. He has published over 500 poems and translations in more than 100 journals, including The Chicago Review, The American Scholar, Prairie Schooner and Georgia Review. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and near Atoka, Oklahoma.