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Writing on napkins at the Sunshine Club : an anthology of poets writing in Macon / edited and introduction by Kevin Cantwell ; afterword by David Bottoms.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Georgia--Macon.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Macon, GA : Mercer University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Writing on Napkins at the Sunshine Club includes a poet laureate of Georgia and of the United States¿and the poet who read at President Clinton¿s second inauguration. The oldest was born in 1905 and the two youngest in that ominous year of American history, 1968. The Pulitzer-winning Stanley Kunitz wrote a famous poem about the Indian Mounds. Miller Williams, father of the Grammy winning Lucinda Williams, lived in Macon in the early 1960s and became a friend of Flannery O¿Connor. In the late 1970s, soon after his Mercer days, David Bottoms writes the poems for Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump and wins the Walt Whitman Award. Jud Mitcham wins the Devins Award for his first book, Somewhere in Ecclesiastes, and Seaborn Jones is doing his stint with Mister Rogers¿ Neighborhood and would later connect, in San Francisco, to one of the last pure lines of surrealism in American expression. Several poets came out of Macon or arrived in Macon soon after. Between Mercer University and Macon State College the activity of poetry in Macon thrived. Adrienne Bond wrote her seminal poems and started up the Georgia Poetry Circuit. Judith Ortiz Cofer passed through Macon State at the brink of her position at the University of Georgia and in American letters as an important artistic spokesperson for women¿s experience. From Bruce Beasley and his hybrid poetics, to Stephen Bluestone and his learned craft in the lyric poem, this book presents a selection for all students of Southern Literature some of the best poems of other poets, too, like Anya Silver, Amanda Pecor, Marjorie Becker, and the late Reginald Shepherd who was as well-known at his early death as any poet of his generation. Many of these poets studied with and knew the important poets of their time. The poems, nevertheless, speak for themselves.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Stanley Kunitz
- The Mound Builders
- Miller Williams
- Rock
- The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina
- Aesthetic Distance
- Adrienne Bond
- Hard Times
- Christmas DayÛ1940
- Renewal
- Inheriting the Earth
- Metastasis
- Women at Sixty
- Script
- Householder
- ChÇtelaine
- No Agamemnon
- Stephen Bluestone
- The Unveiling
- The Laughing Monkeys of Gravity
- i. The Settlement
- vi. In the WorldÌs Machine
- vii. Oracles of Lefts and Rights
- First Voices
- A Garland for Skelton
- The Rug Maker
- The Flagrant Dead
- A Late Blossom at the Bone
- The Windsor Knot
- Play on Radio
- The Closing
- Seaborn Jones
- Orange
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Women &
- Money
- Lost Keys, Coffee and Guns
- The Red Horse
- Telephoning Ginsberg
- Eagle
- This Poem Is Not for You
- First Words
- Unemployed
- The Breath
- This Poem
- Berlin
- Becoming an Artist
- Going Farther into the Woods Than the Woods Go
- Judson Mitcham
- The Touch
- On the Otis Redding Bridge
- Nature
- Preface to an Omnibus Review
- Comedian
- Peace on Earth
- A Postcard to My Father
- History
- Promise
- David Bottoms
- Wrestling Angels
- Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump
- Writing on Napkins at the Sunshine Club
- Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
- Under the Boathouse
- In a U- Haul North of Damascus
- Red Swan
- Under the Vulture-Tree
- The Desk
- Flower in My FatherÌs Parlor
- A Walk to CarterÌs Lake
- A Canoe
- O Mandolin,
- In the Big House of the Allman Brothers My Heart Gets Tuned
- Shelves on the Clark Fork
- Allatoona Evening
- Learning to Become Nothing
- Judith Ortiz Cofer
- Beans: An Apologia for Not Loving to Cook
- The PoetÌs Work
- Black Silk Shirt
- The Art of Scrying: A Poem for My Birthday
- Marjorie Becker
- Looking for an Opening
- Memory of a Dancer
- Body Bach.
- Side-Steps the G- Minor, A-Flat Wail
- Green
- Begging for Clara
- The Man Who Danced Me in Spain
- Anthony Grooms
- In Biloxi
- In the Bar at the North Ridge
- The Problems of the Unimaginably Rich
- Tsunami
- Kevin Cantwell
- Hard, Red Box
- Border States
- Song of the Black Corona
- The Wooden Trap
- These Heights
- Marlowe in Italy
- Night Game Vexed by a Line from Melville
- The Next Abstinence
- Bruce Beasley
- Witness
- The White Children of Macon
- Childhood
- At Easter
- Errata Mystagogia
- The Corpse Flower
- And Go into the Street Which Is Called Straight
- Reginald Shepherd
- The Difficult Music
- Slaves
- My Foolish Friend
- Nuages
- Antibody
- Placet Futile
- About a Boy
- For My Mother in Lieu of Mourning
- Narcissus to Echo
- Hesitation Theory
- Desire and the Slave Trade
- The Gods at Three A.M.
- West Willow
- Hygiene
- Gordon Johnston
- Ties
- Her FatherÌs Pants
- Amanda Pecor
- A Reply to AudenÌs Elegy for Yeats
- Alpha
- American Psalm
- At the Cherry Blossom Festival, Mary Magdalene Explains Her Preference for the Dogwood
- Edenic Interlude
- Invitation
- Life Story
- Marian
- Pink Parasol
- Red
- Romance
- Sexual History
- Used Car Lot
- Anya Silver
- To My Body
- Persimmon
- Canticle of the Washing Machine
- Kelly Whiddon
- A Modern Myth
- Swans and Mosquitoes
- by David Bottoms.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-88146-347-7
- OCLC:
- 787846141
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