2008, Volume IV

Authors

A treat for fans of Luna Corvus! The Fire Eater, Volume IV, offers both a poem by Mr Corvus and a poems about Mr Corvus by Felton H. Wentworth and Cole Kinney. Mr Wentworth is the acknowledged expert on Luna Corvus and his works, and his sonnet, Luna Corvus in Oklahoma, provides both a scholar's and a poet's insight into the heart of Luna Corvus' unique, to say the least, corpus and character. Felton Higgens Wentworth lives with his wife, Nanih, in Philadelphia, Mississippi, down in the old Choctaw country. A writer, artist, and poet, Mr Wentworth is known for his treatises on Southern post-modernist culture, including The Crow in the Moon: A Study of the Works of Luna Corvus. Interestingly, little is known of Corvus biographically. He remains, as he wants, a somewhat mysterious character in Southern literature. As Fire Eater Literary Advisor, David Reif, said about Corvus: "He's whatever the reader wants to make of him. I suppose he likes it that way because in some ways he is the hole in the donut: fat free, sugarless, without animal byproducts, and does not contribute to global warming."

"From what I personally know of Luna Corvus and his work," wrote Fire Eater author, Cole Kinney, "he embodies Flannery O'Connor's 'Christ-haunted South' as the mirror to her most famous character, the Misfit. "Corvus is the Holy Misfit, not the lost Yankee forever searching for a Reason For God (while missing God altogether). As Corvus himself put it in his new poem, The Cross that Cometh, 'But there are those who, will never accept it.' But of course, Corvus is talking of those of this world, those who could never do his 'Johnseventeenreadin,' and those who could never possibly understand why time indeed is not the teacher, but grief."

Galway Moss
Editor, The Fire Eater

By Luna Corvus: The Cross that Cometh

By Cole Kinney: The Woods Ahead (For Luna Corvus)

By Felton H. Wentworth: Luna Corvus in Oklahoma: A Sonnet

IN MEMORIAM:

Kana King Aston

Alison Aston

Sharlyn Lee Kinney

The Fire Eater Quotation

"The pyramid of government—and a republican government may well receive that beautiful and solid form—should be raised to a dignified altitude: but its foundations must, of consequence, be broad, and strong, and deep. The authority, the interests, and the affections of the people at large are the only foundation, on which a superstructure proposed to be at once durable and magnificent, can be rationally erected."

James Wilson () Reference: The Works of James Wilson, McCloskey, ed., 403.

Courtesy: David Kelly, Fire Eater