Descent : Poems /

Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often ""it's safer to stay blind.""Beginning with ""Morning Train, "" a response to Georgia blue...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byer, Kathryn Stripling (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American poetry > Women authors.
FICTION > General.
American poetry > Women authors > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often ""it's safer to stay blind.""Beginning with ""Morning Train, "" a response to Georgia blues musician Precious Bryant, Byer sings her way through a search for identity, recalling the hardscrabble lives of her family in the sequence ""Drought Days, "" and facing her inheritance as a white southern woman growing up amid racial division and violence. The poet encounters her own naive complicity in southern racism and challenges the.
Item Description:"LSU Press Paperback Original."
Physical Description:1 online resource (72 pages).
ISBN:9780807147511

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