Ecstatic in the Poison
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ISBN: 158567429X / Publisher: The Overlook Press, August 2003
A sixth collection of poems draws on events from the author's childhood and later years to present works featuring a prankster who builds a Cadillac in his attic and Russian soldiers condemned to execution.
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Drawing on events of childhood and of later years, as well as the real and imagined lives of others, Hudgins brings to life a rich, comedic, and haunting variety of characters: among them a prankster who disassembles a Cadillac and rebuilds it in his attic, Russian soldiers on the verge of execution, frenzied inhabitants of Sodom, along with middle-class husbands, wives, and children. Cameo appearances by Alexander the Great and his horse Bucephalus, God strolling in the Garden of Eden, and Josef Stalin lead the reader through the epochs. In Hudgins's adroit hands, a lake, and even a joke become personified.
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