David Huddle

huddleDavid Huddle hails from Ivanhoe, Virginia and served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army in the Sixties. He is widely published in journals and has to his credit eight collections of poetry and eleven books of fiction, in addition to one essay collection. La Tour Dreams the Wolf Girl (2002) and The Story of a Million Years (1999), both from Houghton Mifflin, are his most widely known novels, and his poetry collections include Glory River (LSU, 2008) and Blacksnake at the Family Reunion (LSU, 2014). He is an artful performer of his work and a frequent guest poet at colleges.  "Courting" first appeared in Shenandoah 56/2.

Courting

When a man loves a woman in Glory River, she runs like fire if she knows what’s good for her – & most don’t, we admit that much – because any boy grows up here gets Ugly for his middle … Continue reading