Lime Creek

By Joe Henry,

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In this wonderful work of fiction, Joe Henry explores the complex relationship between a father and his sons, whose deep connections to one another, to the land, and to the creatures that inhabit it give meaning to their lives.

Spencer Davis, his wife, Elizabeth, and their sons, Luke, Whitney, and…

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So much of modern writing requires mental acrobatics. It doesn’t engage the heart. But Lime Creek does just that. It is all heart and beautiful writing about the relationship between a father and his sons in the cowboy West that lingers into the modern world.

Joe Henry is a poet and songwriter who has written for the likes of John Denver and Frank Sinatra; he is a hermit who lives by a Colorado river, and his book Lime Creek is every bit as tender and profound as it should be.

Henry is a poet, lyricist, novelist, and rancher from Woody Creek, Colorado. His whole memoir/novel, Lime Creek, is a miniature masterpiece, but I want to draw your attention to the part of it about Christmas. He and John Denver—Denver called Henry his brother—created Christmas gatherings in a barn for several years. In this excerpt set in Wyoming, he imagines one of those gatherings through the eyes of a young boy, Luke. Luke is there with his younger brother, Whitney, his older brother, Lonny, and his mother and father, Elizabeth and Spencer. And the two younger brothers are inspired to…

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