Come Rain, Come Shine - Bedell

Come Rain, Come Shine. By Jack B. Bedell.  Huntsville:  Texas Review Press, 2006.  59 pages, 5 ½ x 8 ½ , ISBN 1-881515-86-9 $16.00 (cloth and jacket);  ISBN 1-881515-87-6  $12.00 (paper)  http://www.shsu.edu/~www_trp/ Bedell teaches English at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press.  The volume reflects the Cajun exotic and mysterious world of French patois, frogs, turtles, herons, handfishing, batfishing, Jean Lafite and dancing at Fred's.  Yet the lines are quite approachable by all. There are lines we all wish to breathe, as in "L'avalasse," "Inside, my wife, and boys draw close / and breathe with such peace the house almost glows."  And other lines we all fear, as in "Dear Heron," "It startles me to find it pinned to barbed wire / on the edge of some pasture