Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox

by Grace Bauer (Editor), Julie Kane

Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum, edited by Julie Kane and Grace Bauer examines and celebrates the life and work of legendary New Orleans poet Everette Maddox. Maddox, who taught poetry at University of Alabama, Xavier University, and University of New Orleans, is known to many as the organizer of a long-running series of open mike poetry readings at New Orleans Maple Leaf Bar. His own poetry appeared in The Paris Review and other literary magazines before his untimely death in 1989. Among his poetry collections are The Thirteen Original Poems (1976), The Everette Maddox Song Book (1982), Bar Scotch (1988), and the posthumous collections American Waste (1993) and Rette s Last Stand (2004). Archival collections devoted to Maddox are located at Xavier University of Louisiana and the Historic New Orleans Collection. Editors Julie Kane and Grace Bauer knew Maddox and his circle, and have gathered together an impressive list of writers for this book. Among them are Martha McFerren, Ralph Adamo, Maxine Cassin, Peter Cooley, Louis Gallo, Ellen Gilchrist, and a host of others connected with the New Orleans literary scene.

318 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

About the author

A native of Pennsylvania, Grace Bauer has also lived in New Orleans, Montana, Massachusetts, Virginia, and now in Lincoln, NE, where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.