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Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey by Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008 is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey about?

<p><P>Powerful new poems by one of North America's premier poets.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Carruth's latest collection revolves around a handful of familiar themes, all of which mingle and reconfigure throughout the poet's bittersweet, sometimes celebratory, occasionally rueful verse. Meditations on aging and love, nostalgia and guilt, contemporary politics and ancient history filter through much of this generally moving, uneven collection. Carruth's voice, always highly personal, is at its best when it mixes colloquial diction with an elegiac lyricism, as in his meditation on family history, "Flying into St. Louis": "For sixty-five years/ I've blamed my mother and father,/ I've climbed their trees and lopped off/ their branches, I've held/ their words in my mind like cudgels." At other times, however, the colloquial takes over and Carruth's verse becomes almost flat, as in "The Chain": "but I am a poet and you are too and so are all people/ except the monsters of this world/ out there planting/ mines in the mud and snow...." Despite its lesser offerings, the collection amply illustrates the openness and honesty with which Carruth addresses the world, the mixed compassion an

Who reads Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey?

Author

Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008

Publisher

Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556591105

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.07 / 5 (232 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13