| Description |
xxvii, 296 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The creation. Lift every voice and sing. O Southland!. Fifty years (1863-1913) / James Weldon Johnson -- Sonnet. I sit and sew. Snow in October / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- A recollection. Past and present. Aliens. The dream. Speaking of poetry / John Peale Bishop -- Lines to a nasturtium. White things. Letter to my sister. For Jim, Easter Eve / Anne Spencer --- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter. The equilibrists. Janet waking. Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom -- Hatteras calling. The room. A letter from the grass. All death, all love. Al the radios. North infinity street / Conrad Aiken -- Portrait in Georgia. Reapers. Georgia dusk. Song of the son / Jean Toomer -- Ode to the confederate dead. The Mediterranean. The oath / Allen Tate -- Memo: for the race orators. He was a man. Memphis blues. Old king cotton. Southern road / Sterling A. Brown -- One more river to cross. Appalachian landscape. Altogether singing. We want more say. Report to the stockholders. Bearded oaks. Evening hawk. Heart of autumn. Mortal limit. Red-tail hawk and pyre of youth / Robert Penn Warren -- A girl in a library. The face. The death of the ball turret gunner. The woman at the Washington zoo. The bronze David of Donatello. Nestus Gurley / Randall Jarrell -- For my people. Jackson, Mississippi. Southern song. Street demonstration / Margaret Walker -- Welcome Eumenides. Woman as artist. A few days in the south in February. Envoy / Eleanor Ross Taylor -- The performance. At Darien bridge. The heaven of animals. Falling / James Dickey -- Aix-la-Chappell, 1945. From William Tyndale to John Frith. The prince. An elegy: December, 1970 / Edgar Bowers -- Counting the mad. Invitation to a ghost. Men at forty. Nostalgia of the lakefronts. Pantoum of the great depression / Donald Justice -- Corsons inlet. The city limits / A.R. Ammons -- Envoy. Luck's shining child. Pastoral. Crows at paestum / George Garrett -- The caterpillar. A poem for Emily. Some lines finished just before dawn at the bedside of a dying student, it has snowed all night. Why god permits evil. Of history and hope / Miller Williams -- The idea of ancestry. The warden said to me the other day. Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane. As you leave me. A poem for myself. Haiku / Etheridge Knight -- Dark with power. Enriching the earth. The man born to farming. The peace of wild things. The country of marriage / Wendell Berry -- This is not a small voice. Morning song and evening walk / Sonia Sanchez -- December journal. Night journal. The other side of the river / Charles Wright -- Cleaning the well. My father's hurricane. My mother's hard row to hoe / Fred Chappell -- To isle of Wight / Dave Smith -- The flying change. Landscape with tractor. Goodby to the old friends / Henry Taylor -- Nikki-Rosa. Ego tripping. Monday. Train rides / Nikki Giovanni -- Two trees. Gobelins. Song and story / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- The heart's graveyard shift. February in Sydney. Sunday afternoons. My father's love letters. Missing in action / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Kings' daughters, home for unwed mothers, 1948. Obedience of the corpse. From Just whistle. Floating trees / C.D. Wright -- Remembering fire. One of the citizens. News of the cranes. Letters from the earth. Elegy for a bad example / Rodney Jones. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Southern States.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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Southern States -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Rigsbee, David.
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Brown, Steven Ford.
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| ISBN |
0813920736 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0813920744 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA171179 |
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