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Red clay suite /
In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue and Outlandish Blues, use the blues poetic to explore notions of histo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue and Outlandish Blues, use the blues poetic to explore notions of history and trauma. Now, in Red Clay Suite, Jeffers approaches the southern landscape as utopia and dystopia-a crossroads of race, gender, and blood. These poems signal the ending movement of her crossroads blues and complete the last four "bars" of a blues song, res. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 73 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780809387588 0809387581 |