"A Week on the Chunky and Chickasawhay" is D.C. Berry's log of a solo canoe expedition, one August week, down the Chunky and Chickasawhay creeks in eastern Mississippi. Along the way he recorded what happened on the creeks, the area history, and what crossed his mind pertaining to the god of that day. Saturday, for instance, is Saturn's day, the god of the hoe and of the hoedown. Sunday, the Sun's day, god of religion, philosophy, and of jive. Monday, the Moon's day, god of women, children, and otherness. Tuesday, Tiu's day, god of war, Wednesday, Wodan's day, god of art. Thursday, Thor's...
"A Week on the Chunky and Chickasawhay" is D.C. Berry's log of a solo canoe expedition, one August week, down the Chunky and Chickasawhay creeks in ea...
POLONIUS: "The beautiful beauty of Berry's art is he can't decide if Hamlet is an old maid like me or not." CLAUDIUS: "Berry brilliant at showing the tragic results of a college boy not getting any." OPHELIA: "I agree with 'Ratio. Hamlet oddly sexmatized in his development. Berry nails it, next time less Hambone and more Hardbone." REYNALDO: "Every hypocrisy on earth revealed here. Shaky tried to write a thriller for the bucks. Got thrown off by artsy-fartsy, which the keen Berry brilliantly avoids." ROSENCRANTZ: "Berry brilliant here. Finer concluding couplets never...
POLONIUS: "The beautiful beauty of Berry's art is he can't decide if Hamlet is an old maid like me or not." CLAUDIUS: "Berry brilliant at showing...
An "X-ray" of Berry's two flings with Multiple Myeloma condensed into haikus. Except where he fudges-out of the haiku syllable-count strait jacket, then calls them cell phone texts, or telegrams, or poemettes if in a poodle mood. Or finger sandwiches in which the baloney is bigger than the bread. Sometimes he raps. Beowulf: Oft Scyld Scefing sceabena preatum. Jump to William Langland (Piers Plowman): A fair field full of folk. On to Shakespeare: Beated and chopp'd with tann'd antiquity. And James Jibber Joyce: Seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, the rusty boot....
An "X-ray" of Berry's two flings with Multiple Myeloma condensed into haikus. Except where he fudges-out of the haiku syllable-count strait jacket,...
