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A Modern southern reader : major stories, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences from the twentieth-century South / edited by Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway.
LIBRA PS551 .M64 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Southern States.
- American literature.
- Southern States.
- American literature--20th century.
- Southern States--Literary collections.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Southern States.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts.
- Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-.
- Intellectual life.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- v, 736 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Peachtree Publishers, [1986]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote
- Barn burning / William Faulkner
- Just like a tree / Ernest J. Gaines
- Old red / Caroline Gordon
- All the old harkening faces at the rail / Barry Hannah
- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston
- The fugitives / Madison Jones
- Jericho, Jericho, Jericho / Andrew Lytle
- The life you save may be your own / Flannery O'Connor
- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
- Uncle Grant / Reynolds Price
- First dark / Elizabeth Spencer
- In the Miro District / Peter Taylor
- A worn path / Eudora Welty
- Chickamauga / Thomas Wolfe
- The man who was almost a man / RIchard Wright
- Introduction
- Nelly Myers ; Coon song / A.R. Ammons
- My grandfather's funeral ; Tobacco men ; Drinking music / James Applewhite
- Where ; Work song ; The slip ; In rain / Wendell Berry
- Shooting rats at the Bibb County dump ; Under the boathouse ; Under the vulture-tree / David Bottoms
- The autumn bleat of the weathervane trombone ; Awakening to music ; Here ; Humility / Fred Chappell
- Joe Clisby's song ; Lee in the mountains / Donald Davidson
- A dog sleeping on my feet ; Cherrylog Road ; False youth : two seasons (winter) / James Dickey
- A girl in a library / Randall Jarrell
- Women in love ; Tales from a family album ; The grandfathers / Donald Justice
- The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
- Southern vortex ; The exclusion principle ; Pity / William Mills
- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter ; THe equilibrists ; Antique harvesters ; Vision for Sweetwater ; Two in August / John Crowe Ransom
- It all comes together outside the restroom in Hogansville ; Grabbling in Yokna Bottom ; No man's good bull / James Seay
- The tire hangs in the yard ; The colors of our age : pink and black / Dave Smith
- The soup jar ; Mining in Killdeer Alley ; No yellow jackets on the mountain / Dabney Stuart
- Ode to the Confederate dead ; The oath ; The swimmers / Allen Tate
- Burial / Alice Walker
- Evening hawk ; English cocker : old and blind ; The corner of the eye ; The place ; Old photograph of the future ; Muted music ; Covered bridge ; Old-time Childhhood in Kentucky ; Mortal limit ; Three darknessess / Robert Penn Warren
- About a year after he got married he would sit alone in an abandoned shack in a cotton field enjoying himself ; He records a little song for a smoking girl ; A local man doesn't like the music / James Whitehead
- A poem for Emily ; After the revolution for Jesus the associate professor prepares his final remarks / Miller Williams
- Northhanger Ridge ; Dead color / Charles Wright
- THe member of the wedding / Carson McCullers
- The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams
- from The mind of the South / W.J. Cash
- Mississippi / William Faulkner
- The Catholic novelist in the Protestant South / Flannery O'Connor
- This quiet dust / William Styron
- A Southern mode of the imagination / Allen Tate
- Place in fiction / Eudora Welty
- The search for Southern identity / C. Vann Woodward
- from A death in the family / James Agee
- from You have seen their faces / Erskine Caldwell
- from A childhood : the biography of a place / Harry Crews
- from Mules and men and Dust tracks on a road : an autobiography / Zora Neale Hurston
- Always stand in against the curve / Willie Morris
- Introduction to Lanterns on the levee / Walker Percy
- from All God's dangers : the life of Nate Shaw / Theodore Rosengarten
- The boll weevil, the iron horse, and the end of the line : thoughts on the South / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
- Ida M'Toy / Eudora Welty
- William Faulkner (with Jean Stein)
- Shelby Foote (with John Griffin Jones)
- Walker Percy, Questions they never asked me so he asked them himself.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0934601011 :
- 9780934601016
- 0934601089
- 9780934601085
- OCLC:
- 14129283
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