Where you come from is gone : poems / Annie Woodford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodford, Annie, 1978- author.

Standardized Title:

Where you come from is gone (Compilation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Rural conditions--Poetry.

Southern States.

Southern States--Economic conditions--Poetry.

Social classes--Southern States--Poetry.

Social classes.

Racism--Southern States--Poetry.

Racism.

Resilience (Personality trait)--Poetry.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

89 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Henry County as Kitezh

Vireo

Southside

Those Factories Had Heart-Pine Floors

My Father's House Had Wheels

And so the Beauty of Lilies Falls on Angels and Men

What I Saw in Bassett Last Sunday

When My Mother Tells Me She Has Taken My Daughter to Swim at the Knight's Inn {Once the Fairystone Motel)

This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It to Surrender

Till You Said Something Neither of Us Knew

Spring Break

Sacred Hearts of Henry County

II. Country as Kitezh

Rhetorical Modes

The Children's Recital

Great Road

Silhouettes

Mama and My Aunt and Even

Demijohn: Bent Mountain

Upon Attending a Lecture about the Lost Films of Oscar Micheaux

A Poem in Which I Grab My Poverty Like That Jaguar in the Video Grabbed a Crocodile Out of the River and Carried It into the Jungle

Quiet as It's Kept

Contemplating the Female in a Country Dangerous for Women

All Over the South Today

III. Family as Kitezh

We Have Come Through to the Grass

The Transient Here

If Bird You Be, Then Hawk for Certain

Bolt's Nursery

My Aunt Lovelene's Beauty Shop Was in Her Home

Season of Feasts: Advent Calendar

Makeshift Altars

A Flower is a Field (Poised Like Souls, Remembering)

Extended Family Love Song

Where You Come from Is Gone

Whatness

IV. BodyasKitezh

Dousing

Curing

Diving Prayer

In the Dark I Light a Little Fire

Damsons

The Beat Itself

In Order to Deny the Fact of Death, Which Is the Only Fact We Have

All of This Is Magic Against Death

Pictures for Gram Parson's Nudie Suit

To a Blue Tick Mongrel, Pacing the Pittsylvania County Line

Between the Shadow and the Soul

I Must Be Born Again.

Notes:

Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry, 2020

ISBN:

9780881468540

0881468541

OCLC:

1330405777