Bone-Hollow, True

"Jack B. Bedell knows the ancient power of story to hold things together: societies, beliefs, clans, families, love. He knows too that that power has never diminished in time. Bedell takes himself again and again to the force and truth and flight the story always contains if it is a true story. And, it is his particular genius that forges those stories into the eloquent and elegant poems of Bone-Hollow, True. Here is a poet whose practice makes him a master of every part of the poem, but he will startle you with how beautifully he manages storytelling as his primary argument for art in the service of the lives he knows from the inside out." 
--Darell Bourque, author of In Ordinary Light 

"Jack Bedell is a prince amongst poets, a kindred spirit in this magnificent landscape of Cajuns and southern Louisiana, where his best poems render amazing texture to a place filthy rich in culture, sugar cane fields, Mardi Gras, and a world where any child would be blessed to live his/her childhood. His is a mature voice, graceful and eloquent, that brings to life more than the memory of the place and its people."
--Virgil Suarez