| Description |
xxxv, 275 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Ablution / Amy Fleury -- An Accurate Representation / Josephine Yu -- After The Tornado, The Checkout Clerk Considers Leaving / Catherine Pierce -- Allergenesis / Kiki Petrosino -- From Aphorisms / Theodore Worozbyt -- April Fifth, Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Three / Davis Mccombs -- Art In Heaven / Greg Brownderville -- At Lake Mineral Wells State Park / Danielle Sellers -- The Avocado / Terrance Hayes -- Balloon Heart / Beth Gylys -- Banking Hours / Morri Creech -- Bardo / Charlotte Pence -- Beer / Greg Williamson -- Believer / Danielle Chapman -- Bellocq's Ophelia / Natasha Trethewey -- Bite Me / Beth Ann Fennelly -- Blues For The Death Of The Sun / Ansel Elkins -- Boy / Sean Hill -- Burying Albatross / Frank X. Walker -- Butt-Naked Old Men / Stephen Cushman -- Bycatch / Hastings Hensel -- Cedar Key After Storm / William Logan -- Coat Hanger Bent Into Halo / Mary Karr -- Concerning My Former In-Laws / Julie Funderburk -- The Confession / Morri Creech -- Conversation With Owl And Clouds / Jennifer Chang -- Cosmogony / Caki Wilkinson -- Country-Western Singer / Alan Shapiro -- The Country-Western Singer's Ex-Wife, Sober In Mendocino County, California / Carrie Jerrell -- Death By Basketball / Frank X. Walker -- The Dive / Chad Abushanab -- Dream Transient / Octavio Q. Uintanilla -- Dust Devil / Christian Wiman -- Early Autumn In Tennessee / Daniel Anderson -- Election Day Shooting At Middkburg, Tennessee, November 4, 1924, With Excerpts From The November 7 Edition Of The Lexington Progress And Auburn Powers's History Of Henderson Count)) / Bobby Rogers -- English Sonnet / Chelsea Rathburn -- Exercitia Spiritualia / Geoffrey Brock -- Explaining An Affinity For Bats / A. E. Stallings -- Explosives / Evie Shockley -- Exteriority / Nick Norwood -- Faith / Tim Seibles -- Fake Flowers / Sebastian Matthews -- Ferocious Ode / Steve Scafidi -- First Warm Day In A College Town / Beth Ann Fennelly -- Flesh Of John Brown's Flesh: December 2, 1859 / Geoffrey Brock -- Floundering / Adam Vines -- The Folklore Of Waitresses / Megan Sexton -- Foreday In The Morning / Jericho Brown -- Funny / Theodore Worozbyt -- Gas Station Restroom / Alan Shapiro -- Geese / James May -- Ghazal For Buildings / Dan Albergotti -- Ghost Season / Melanie Jordan -- God Is An American / Terrance Hayes -- Going To The Movies Alone / Ansel Elkins -- The Gothic Line / Chad Davidson -- Gun Of Wishes / Vievee Francis -- Halloween / Sandra Beasley -- Homecoming / Eric Smith -- Horse And Rider / Melissa Range -- How We Count In The South / Erin Belieu -- Human Imprint / Hastings Hensel -- Hush / Anna Lena Phillips Bell -- Hutch / Atsuro Riley -- I Believe In Pain The Way Others Believe In God / Beth Gylys -- I Had A Little Cash / Jillian Weise -- The Illusionist / Michael Shewmaker -- In/Exhaustible / Erika Meitner -- In The Beginning, Death / Natalie Graham -- Ink / Michael Shewmaker -- Intersection / Natalie Graham -- Introduction To Home Economics / Chelsea Rathburn -- Jeremiad / Melanie Jordan -- Jungle Fever Epithalamium / Erica Daw Son -- Kismet / Lisa Russ Spaar -- Lampblack / Melissa Range -- The Landlocked Lighthouse / Chad Abushanab -- Layover / Erica Dawson -- Lines / Iulie Funderburk -- Lonely / Melanie Almeder -- Love Song With Exiles / Octavio Quintanilla -- Master Of None / Sebastian Matthews -- Matches / George David Clark -- Memorial Day / Danielle Sellers -- Michael Jordan / Austin Hummell -- Midafternoon / Anna Lena Phillips Bell -- Milledgeville Haibun / Sean Hill -- Mississippian / Paul Bone -- Moonflowers / James May -- Moonrise / Brent Newsom -- Morning, Minnesott / Terry Kennedy -- Moving (Again) / Daniel Anderson -- My Father Explains The History Of Sugar, The Middle Passage And Slavery To My Brother, Age 5, Over Breakfast / Tj Jarrett -- My Lovely Assistant / Patrick Phillips -- My Mother Told Us Not To Have Children / Rebecca Gayle Howell -- My Mother Woke A Rooster / Laurie Ann Guerrero -- Nails / Katie Chaple -- Neither / Dan Albergotti -- The Night Nurse Comes / Patrick Phillips -- Nocturne / Melanie Almeder -- Normalization Of Deviance / Charlotte Pence -- Not A Word / Greg Fraser -- Note To The Addict Who Robbed Us On A Landscaping Job / Kyle Dargan -- Obsessed / Mary Crockett Hill -- Ode To My Hands / Tim Seibles -- Ode To Silence / Megan Sexton -- Of Thorns / Davis McCombs -- On New Year's Eve / Evie Shockley -- On Speaking With An Old Schoolmate After His Physics Lecture At A Local University / Adam Vines -- On The Wood Storks / William Logan -- Origami / Greg Williamson -- Outside Winn Dixie In Suburban Plaza / William Walsh -- Palestine, Texas / Fady Toudah -- Pfc. Mason Buxton Embraces The Suck / Brent Newsom -- Phone Sex / Juliana Gray -- Pocket-Knives / Ron Rash -- Poem / Paul Bone -- Poem Found / Martha Serpas -- Portrait Of My Ex As The Letter X / Juliana Gray -- A Preacher Who Takes Up Serpents Laments The Presence Of Skeptics In His Church / Ron Rash -- Preparing The Tongue / Laurie Ann Guerrero -- Primitive Baptist / Bobby Rogers -- The Professor And Mary Ann / Austin Hummell -- The Progress Of Night / Amy Fleury -- Rahab / Jillian Weise -- Reliability / Rebecca Gayle Howell -- The Ring / Carrie Jerrell -- River Of Mirrors / Steve Scafidi -- Ruin / Tj Jarrett -- Sandhill Crane / Eric Smith -- Scale / Catherine Pierce -- Sea Glass For A Second Son / Stephen Cushman -- Sea Psalm / Jennifer Chang -- Self-Checkout / Caki Wilkinson -- Self-Portrait As Slinky / Tarfia Faizullah -- Shedand / Nick Norwood -- Signs, Oakvale, Mississippi, 1941 / Natasha Trethewey -- Silence / Terry Kennedy -- Silence / A. E. Stallings -- Sinners Welcome / Mary Karr -- Sitting Down To Breakfast Alone / Christian Wiman -- Skinned / Vievee Francis -- Souvenirs / Tony Crunk -- Street View: Google Earth: Lakeview Avenue / William Walsh -- Sunder / Atsuro Riley -- Target / Chad Davidson -- The Tavern Trees / Danielle Chapman -- Telephoning / Greg Brownderville -- Testament / Julie Funderburk -- The Theft / Greg Fraser -- A Theory Of Everything / Mary Crockett Hill -- Three Vultures On The Blacktop To Memphis / Barbara Hamby -- Toshno / Barbara Hamby -- The Tradition / Jericho Brown -- The Transfiguration Of A Certain Plowman / Maurice Manning -- Trying Not To Cry Before Dinner / Josephine Yu -- Valentine / Kiki Petrosino -- Visiting A Lost Aunt At The Jefferson Davis Hotel, Elkton / Tony Crunk -- The Wake / Sandra Beasley -- Wal*Mart Supercenter / Erika Meitner -- Wandered, The / Kyle Dargan -- Watch / Lisa Russ Spaar -- The Water / Martha Serpas -- The Way Back / Fady Joudah -- What I Want Is Simple / Tarfia Faizullah -- When At A Certain Party In Nyc / Erin Belieu -- White Castle / Katie Chaple -- XLVIII From Bucolics / Maurice Manning -- Yestermorrow / George David Clark. |
| Summary |
"John Poch's newly curated collection, Gracious: Poems of the 21st Century South, spotlights both emerging and notable voices from this poetry-rich region. This book promises to be the best and most influential anthology of Southern poetry published in over thirty years. Gracious steers away from stereotypical mockingbird-and-magnolia verse and instead amplifies a variety of lyric voices covering a wide breadth of Southern experience. Bryan Giemza's timely introduction situates the anthology among the current discourse in Southern studies. Gracious features the work of some of our best-known poets alongside those who have just published their first books. In all, there are eighty-four poets included whose work moves both the heart and the intellect. Gracious is, in the end, a new poetic geography, a book that strives to define Southern poetry for a generation to come. It is a book intended not only for the classroom; it aims to capture the imaginations of readers of all ages and backgrounds."-- Provided by Publisher. |
| Subject |
Southern States -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Poch, John, 1966- editor.
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Giemza, Bryan Albin, writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9781682830642 (paperback) |
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1682830640 (paperback) |
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