Shelby's Lady - by Shelby Stephenson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A freezing cold winter day, a disemboweled 250-pound hog hangs over a vat of hot water in the farmyard. The carcass will be scalded and scraped clean. A few neighbors have come to help and the women are already cleaning the chitterlings that will encase the sausage made from meat scraps.</p><p><br></p><p>Making sausage was my favorite part of the day. After the meat has been ground, then comes the seasoning: salt, red pepper, and sage from a nearby bush. The women mix it, then fry up a few "try pieces." "Needs more salt," one woman will say. "More pepper," says another. "You need a little more heat in there." The samples are passed around to get everyone's opinion - even a child's if I'm lucky because with so much going on, I've long since run off my lunch.</p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Shelby's Lady: The Hog Poems</em>, Shelby Stephenson has captured all the hard and often dirty work that goes into prepping and preserving a slaughtered pig before refrigerators were common. I remember salting the hams, drying the links of sausage or rendering the fat for lard. Shelby shows us again a way of life that has almost completely disappeared.</p><p><br></p><p>-<strong>Margaret Maron</strong>, North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Poet and singer, minstrel of hog-killing and connoisseur of barbecue, memoirist of affectionately named hogs, of family, work, and love - Shelby is a storyteller who can touch you like a sad Carter Family lyric or an old gospel song. -<strong>Robert Morgan</strong>, author of <em>Dark Energy</em></p><p><br></p><p>There's a gentle presence in Shelby's poems, a crowd of the dead and gone who urge the poet into a wise exploration of the complex relationship of life to art. -<strong>Stephen E. Smith</strong>, author of <em>A Short Report on the Fire at Woolworths</em></p><p><br></p><p>These poems ache with remembrance, shimmer with possibilities, and somehow teach us not only about rural life in Stephenson's North Carolina childhood, but also the larger truths of human connections to one another, to the land, and to the animals that live and work alongside us. -<strong>Malaika King Albrecht</strong>, editor of <em>Redheaded Stepchild</em> and inaugural Heart of Pamlico Poet Laureate</p><p><br></p><p>Stephenson's rhapsody, episodic with agony and joy, inspires with the beauty of pigs while celebrating barbecue in a world that "never tires of love." -<strong>Hilda Downer</strong>, author of <em>Bandana Creek</em> and <em>Sky Under the Roof</em></p><p><br></p><p>This book sings, and wallows, and hollers, and then coos like a mourning dove. The poems take you to where they took place. -<strong>Clyde Edgerton</strong>, author of <em>Papadaddy's Book for New Fathers</em></p><br>
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