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of death, Middleton gives us the fiddler of
life, the fiddler singing a song of time and
eternity as old as Eden itself. Looking down
upon the corner of the world known as Loui-
siana, this girl proclaims, "I'm the fiddler of
that dance / Where stars go round in rings."
She is the fiddler of morning, of hope, of
regeneration, of redemption:
Sometimes I climb the highest pine
On this our highest hill
As Daybreak breezes play through
limbs
Where light and silence spill. . . .
And thus atop green Driskill Hill
Each year in high July
I sing what is and ought to be
And will until I die;
For that's what bow and strings are for,
To raise things up in song
Between The Fall and Paradise
And urge the world along.

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FALL 2014

The Fiddler of Driskill Hill is a brilliant
and shimmering book of poetry written
by an accomplished craftsman. More than
giving us beautiful regional poetry, David
Middleton gives us Louisiana cosmopoesis.
Yet this cosmos is not the world of postmod-
ern despair that tempts us daily; Middleton's
world finds its boundaries in a world cel-
ebrated by the Fiddler on Driskill Hill: the
space between Eden and the New Jerusalem.
His poetry is at every turn an invitation to
step into what Caroline Gordon called "the
primal plot," a plot that began in Eden and
ran right through Golgotha and the empty
tomb, and one that encompasses us still. In
the poem "Upon the Publication of a First
Book of Poems," Middleton suggests that
the ultimate purpose of poetry is to "Con-
firm the Maker in each maker's rhyme." In a
world that is increasingly insane, The Fiddler
of Driskill Hill provides a disarmingly beauti-
ful and simple vision: the poet is a maker of
words guided by the Maker who is the Word,
and our stories are incoherent unless we find
them in Him.



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