Myths of Electricity - Meaux

The Texas Review Press, over at Sam Houston State University, runs a pretty good line of books, not all of which are Texas themed.  Here are two tinged with Louisiana.  Their distribution is through the TAMU Consortium http://www.tamu.edu/upress/TR/trgen.html    Myths of Electricity.  By Kevin Meaux. Huntsville:  Texas Review Press, 2005.  40 pp. 5 1/2x8 ½,  paper, ISBN 1-881515-73-7   $8.95  http://www.shsu.edu/~www_trp/   Meaux, born and educated in the Pelican State, took the occasion to cross the Sabine and to teach at Lamar University in Beaumont.   This volume, like Come Rain, dwells on the rural nature and person.  The poet writes with respect and a playful, exploratory mind.  He mixes for you here snakes, ghosts, abandonment, magic, omens, prayers, and immortality.  Some lines could be made in East Texas, as in "On visiting a Childhood Home," "As always, the summer unreels into wisteria / and dense clumps of honeysuckle, enthralling the backyard bees."  And some lines could end anywhere, as in "Hymn for Abandoned Things," "And whatever's neglected / will inherit the hushed corners of the kingdom, / as winds alone compose the low hymns / for all that's tarnished and born again among the weeds."