Southern crossings : poetry, memory, and the transcultural South / Daniel Cross Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Daniel Cross.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Southern States--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. "Southern Crossings" crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea-or ideas, many and contrary-of "Southernness" to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner's close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm's central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. Through his focus on varied yet interwoven forms o

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Poetic Historiophoty: Filmic Memory in Robert Penn Warren's Audubon: A Vision; 2. Returning the "Undying Cry of the Void": The Changing Condition of Primal Memory in James Dickey's Poetry; 3. Many Returns: Forms of Nostalgia in the Poetry of the Contemporary South; 4. Lost Highways and Ethereal Landscapes: Cartographic Memory in the Poetry of Charles Wright; 5. Ghostwriting the Claims of the Dead: Traumatic Memory in Yusef Komunyakaa's Verse; 6. Transouthern Hybridities: The Poetics of Countermemory; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.

ISBN:

9786613854711

9781572338944

1572338946

9781283542265

1283542269

OCLC:

821726229