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Hard Lines : Rough South Poetry /

Daniel Cross Turner and William Wright's anthology Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry centers on the darker side of southern experience while presenting a remarkable array of poets from diverse backgrounds in the American South. As tough-minded as they are high-minded, the sixty contemporary poets...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wright, William, 1979- (éditeur intellectuel.), Turner, Daniel Cross (éditeur intellectuel.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / William Wright
  • Acknowledments
  • Introduction / Daniel Cross Turner
  • Betthy Adcock : Burnt offerings ; Rising star, 1985 ; If their voices were visible entities
  • Dan Albergotti : Notes for a poem in which God does not appear ; Lesson of the elements: fire ; Lesson of the elements: earth
  • Paul Allen : Altar call ; After an all-nighter camping with a young friend at Cape Romain Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina
  • Brian Barker : In the city of fallen rebels ; The tress of the south ; Dog gospel
  • Coleman Barks : Lard gourd ; Grace ; Luke and the duct tape
  • Jack B. Bedell : Travail ; Saturday night crab boils ; Loup garou
  • Destiny O. Birdsong : Sugar
  • David Bottoms : Shooting rats at the Bibb County Dump ; Under the vulture
  • tree ; Under the boathouse ; In a U-Haul north of Damascus
  • Besmilr Brigham : The hurricane ; Winston Weathers
  • Kathryn Stripling Byer : Dagger ; Bait ; Delivery
  • Fred Chappell : The Artful Dodger out of the bag
  • Kelly Cherry : Wild dogwood ; The heat down south (Richmond, 1955) ; Gulfport
  • Michael Chitwood : A childhood ; The one day ; Skinning
  • Jim Clark : Black Dog Shadrick Mayhew ; Waking up drunk ; Once more, the night
  • Allison Adelle Hedge Coke : Off-season ; Packin' four corner nabs
  • Daniel Corrie : Sleeping and waking
  • Kate Daniels : Autobiography of a white girl raised in the South ; Louisiana, late summer ; The figure eight
  • Kwame Dawes : Thief ; Reburial
  • James Dickey : Cherrylog Road ; The sheep child ; Canebrake
  • R.H.W. Dillard : A Friday night kind of sonnet ; Event; A gathering; Vastation
  • Claudia Emerson : Ephemeris ; Practice blood ; Third
  • Tarfia Faizullah : Nocturne in need of a bitch ; The streetlamp above me darkens
  • Forrest Gander : From Life of Johnson upside your head ; Lovegreen
  • George Garrett : Whistling in the dark ; Buzzard ; Luck's shining child
  • Jesse Graves : River gods ; Firing order ; Elegy for a hay rake
  • Jeff Hardin : On the eve of a new millennium
  • Ashley Mace Havird : At Stonewall ; Lunar eclipse
  • David Havird : In seventh grade ; Downriver with Uncle Paul
  • Terrance Hayes : Ode to big trend ; Palmetto State
  • Hastings Hensel : Jump-start ; The rope in the motor ; Filet
  • Ron Houchin : Meanwhile ; Outhouse ; The broken eye
  • Rebecca Gayle Howell : No one was born here ; We're on a need to know basis ; The quick and the dead
  • David Huddle : Even then I knew ; Evidence contributing to a late illumination ; Trotlines
  • Andrew Hudgins : The names of the lost ; My daughter ; In ; Out
  • T.R. Hummer : Slow train through Georgia ; The Antichrist in Arkansas ; Greek
  • TJ Jarrett : Of late, I have been thinking about dispair ; Late that summer ; Meridian, MS, 1978: Miss Polly attends the altar at Mt. Zion
  • Rodney Jones : The power of the quote
  • Judy Jordan : From Pete's Lake
  • Terry L. Kennedy : Concerning the hunt ; Concerning the puppies
  • Yusef Komunyakaa : From Requiem ; The white handkerchief ; Augury at sunset
  • John Lane : The day Andy Griffith died ; Tony Dorsett and his band ; Wreckage
  • Naton Leslie : Completion ; Country
  • ED Madden : Inferno
  • AL Maginnes : Pornography ; Firefly gospel ; Music from small towns
  • Jeff Mann : A brief Christian visit; or, The butch bottom sends old ladies packing ; The Shepherdstown sweetshop
  • Jeff Daniel Marion : Hand-me-down days ; Orpha ; Winter watch
  • Linda Parsons Marion : Chicken pickin' ; My stepmother takes me to the fair ; Repossessed
  • Christopher Martin : Parable of the Carolina chickadee ; Visiting wildman's Civil War surplus and herb shop
  • Chris Mattingly : No 'count ; Summertime
  • Michael McFee : Yaller ; Breaks ; Cottonmouth
  • Ray McManus : Dog box ; Disturbing remains ; Staying in the truck
  • Thorpe Moeckel : Spittoono Lily ; Cold range, hot range ; Living by water
  • Robert Morgan : Manure pile ; The gift of tongues ; Man and machine
  • Ricardo Nazario Y Colón : Mi nuevo hogar: Kentucky.
  • Tara Powell : Watching Deliverance with my students
  • Ron Rash : The skeleton in the dogwood ; Winter lightning ; Animal hides
  • Janisse Ray : Land of milk and honey
  • Paul Ruffin : Frozen over ; Circling ; Gigging frogs ; Sawdust pile
  • Steve Scafidi : To whoever set my truck on fire ; The West Virginia copper-wing ; The hillbilly break-dance and the talking crow
  • James Seay : It comes together outside the restroom in Hogansville ; Kelly dug a hole
  • Dave Smith : How to get to Green Springs ; In the yard, late summer ; The tire hangs in the yard
  • R.T. Smith : A local Doc, over rocky lunchtime bourbon, speaks of bartar and hopeful home remedies ; Horton's store ; Dar He
  • Sheryl St. Germain : Addiction ; Always wear clean underwear, you never konw when you might get in a car accident ; Wild ones
  • Leon Stokesbury : To Laura Phelan: 1886-1906 ; Midway
  • Richard Tillinghast : Lost Cove & the Rose of San Antone ; Allen's Station: they
  • Deno Trakas : End of August, 2005 ; Walking to work on a snowy morning
  • Natasha Trethewey : Disclosure ; From "Native Guard" ; Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright on dissecting the white negro, 1851 ; Onlookers gathered at the traveling chair's arrival
  • Adam Vines : Prologue and return ; Mine rats ; The old salt's brag
  • Ellen Bryant Voigt : Bright leaf ; The trust ; Cow ; Owl
  • G.C. Waldrep : Elberta ; Vertigo ; Sustainable agriculture
  • Frank X Walker : Spell to give the woman a head ; How to swallow an elephant ; Cure to eiliminate the N-word
  • Robert West : Mountaintop removal ; Cornfield
  • James Whitehead : A local man remembers Betty Fuller ; The Alabama man remembers all he can about the battered children and the woman with almost perfect skin in Mobile seven years ago
  • Amy Wright : In that place
  • Charles Wright : Driving through Tennessee ; Lost bodies
  • William Wright : Trumpet creeper ; Rabid cat ; Triptych for the days before her passage
  • Jake Adam York : Collect ; Self-portrait on a plate-glass window ; Letter written on a hundred dollar bill ; Inscription for air
  • The contributors
  • Suggestions for further reading
  • Index of author and titles.