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Landscape with bloodfeud / Wendy Barnes.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.A775656 L36 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, Wendy, author.
- Series:
- Juniper Prize for Poetry
- Juniper prize for poetry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 83 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Scarred by nuclear smokestacks, oil wells, and surging floodwaters, and haunted by the legacies of slavery, racism, and French rule, the Louisiana of Landscape with Bloodfeud is disenchanted but still exerts an undeniable pull. Reckoning with displacement, ancestral guilt, and centuries of human and environmental exploitation, Wendy Barnes dissects the state's turbulent past-as a microcosm of colonial oppression, westward expansion, and the birth of global capitalism. With an expat's detachment, our Louisiana-born speaker contemplates her fraught relationship with her home culture and her white working-class roots, raising questions about complicity and shame, as history "bleeds us all for its tax, some for more, / digging down into every wet wound, / digging down among the taproots, under old folks' / marble tombs or unmarked graves.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I
- The Revenant Quarrels with Weather
- Reflection in Muddy Water
- How Bienville Enlightens the Bottomland, 1718
- Affliction Parish
- Cityscape with Carnival
- Photograph from Angola Penitentiary, 1935
- Landscape with Accent
- The Hunt
- II
- Landscape with Bloodfeud
- III
- The Revenant Retraces Her Steps
- Self-Portrait as Solid, Liquid, Gas
- South of the Narcissus
- Interior with Locked Doors
- The Collaborator
- How My Forebears Whitewash History
- The Profiteers: The Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans Railroad, 1878
- The Cadillac Club, 1922
- Jitterbug, 1953
- Wetlands, Wherein the Orphans
- Epistle from a Sunken City
- The Part-Time Penitent's Guide to Modern Farming
- IV
- Barataria Bay, Louisiana
- V
- Landscape, Unmoored
- Bayou Manchac Love Report
- The Revenant Addresses the Victims, 2005
- The Mardi Gras Ball, 1999
- Chalmette, Louisiana, 1988
- How a Profiteer Cuts Losses, 2010
- At Congo Square, 2015
- Danziger Bridge, Redux
- The Swamp Hag's Vigil.
- Notes:
- "Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry"--Back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 83).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Barnes, Wendy. Landscape with bloodfeud
- ISBN:
- 9781625346414
- 1625346417
- OCLC:
- 1284917182
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