Fingertip Scripture

“Fingertip Scriptures is one part Sam Shepard play, one part surreal Gothic gospel, and one part American History 101 drunk on Netflix. This is a rare and seething and hilarious American original, like nothing I have ever read. May its burning lights lead you to whole new vistas and visions of what the genius of collaboration can do and is in this brilliant montage.”

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Praise for Fingertip Scripture

“Fingertip Scriptures is one part Sam Shepard play, one part surreal Gothic gospel, and one part American History 101 drunk on Netflix. This is a rare and seething and hilarious American original, like nothing I have ever read. May its burning lights lead you to whole new vistas and visions of what the genius of collaboration can do and is in this brilliant montage.”

–Robert Vivian, author of The Least Cricket of Evening and The Mover of Bones

“Fingertip Scripture is like a great lay for your brain–one part guilty pleasure, one part practiced skill.”

–Tatiana Ryckman, author of Twenty-Something

“Well, a city slicker came and he said I’m tough, George Jones, a hero of these poems, crooned in his 1971 hit “White Lightning.” Well, I’m telling you, the poems of Fingertip Scripture are simultaneously tough and tender. Here, Ronnie and Mad — along with their omniscient, omnipotent, friend “Black Lincoln” — take us on a ride from the 75th Street Brewery to a campfire meeting of the Nicotine Brothers & Narcotic Sisters and all points between. These poems are George Jones and Winter’s Bone, moonshine in delicate couplets and hard-won, down-sung lyric. In “The Mystery of Sustenance,” the boys remind each other: “Be sure to pick up some jerky and a case // of forget-me-not and a bottle of that old brown / fire to wash the memory down,” because memory and forgetfulness are the very things that, it turns out, sustain us.”

–D. Gilson, author of Brit Lit and I Will Say This Exactly One Time

About the Author

Lee Busby received his MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He recently taught in the Creative Writing program at Missouri State University, and is co-founder of River Pretty Writers Retreat. He has previously published poems in The Gingko Tree Review, Connotation Press, The Moon City Review, Elder Mountain, Borderline Poetry, and Numero Cinq, among others. He currently lives in Kansas City, MO.

Lee is the co-founder and faculty at River Pretty Writers Retreat, held bi-annually in Tecumseh, MO.

About the Author

Ian Bodkin received his MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work has appeared in Marco Polo Arts Magazine, Atlas & Alice, Rain Taxi, and Scissors and Spackle among others. He teaches writing and literature at both a high school and community college in Richmond, VA.

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