The girl singer : poems / Marianne Worthington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worthington, Marianne, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 90 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Lexington, Kentucky] : Fireside Industries, an imprint of the University of Kentucky, [2021]

Summary:

"Feminism, Appalachian culture, and country music: three threads beautifully woven into one in Marianne Worthington's poetry collection The Girl Singer. The poet grew up in urban Appalachia, listening to country and folk music and letting it live within her. The speakers in The Girl Singer offer lyrical celebrations of the women who performed that music and recite their stories anew. The girl singer is also the poet-one who traces loss through turning seasons, monitors the patterns of neighborhood wildlife, and creates a sisterhood for singing old songs in new ways. The Girl Singer is part family history, part music, and part nature walk. Worthington's attentive eye and heart are reflected in the starkly striking and painful images she paints in the poems. Every poem, whether describing a connection with Appalachian wildlife, retelling the lyrics of a classic country tune, reflecting on the speaker's bloodline, or giving voice to famous musical figures of the past, strikes a powerful chord"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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Index of Canticles

A. P. Carter v. Sara Carter, 1932

Dead Man's Tuning

Strings

Knoxville Boy

Recitatives on a Murder

Ann Foster Melton Speaks from Her Deathbed

Tom Dula Speaks from the Gallows

Perlene Foster Speaks from the Kitchen

Laura Foster Speaks from the Grave

The Girl Singer

Barn Dance (Road Show)

Barn Dance (Costume)

Barn Dance (Chorus)

Barn Dance (Cousin Emmy Remembers Her Show Car)

Maybelle Carter on Singing Hillbilly Boogie with Sara, ca. 1963

On Seeing a Letter Patsy Cline Wrote to Nudie the Tailor

Rebel Girl (Hazel Dickens)

I saw Bobby Bare kiss Marty Stuart

I Will Always Love You

Love in the Cold War

Poem in My Grandmother's Voice

Pentecost 1965

The only way out

My Grandmother's Sewing Notions

Once

Vocal School

War Story

Minor Detour through an Old Knoxville Neighborhood

James Brown Performs "Cold Sweat" on American Bandstand 1968

Slow Dance

Corvus

Thanksgiving Eve

Herons on the Holston

Gallows Humor

Sevens

Paralysis

My Maternal People

Kitchen Waltz

Tree Rings

Ballad

To Sing and Sing Again

The Chief Things of the Ancient Mountains

The Full Corn Moon

Gravity Sonnet

Roll Call (A Dissimulation of Birds)

Lone Crow Daddy Spends His Afternoon Setting Up a Carnival

Small-Town Gossip

My Grandmother's Dog Song

Bounty

Barn Swallows

Put Upon by Grief

Gospel Song

Sorrow Lets Loose for a Moment

Offal & Bones

Oh, Groundhog!

Mapmaker.

ISBN:

9781950564187

1950564185

9781950564194

1950564193

OCLC:

1245343867