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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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
[2016]
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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.