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The Upstate.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turner, Lindsay.
- Series:
- Phoenix Poets Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (67 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis. Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne's lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Turner's The Upstate is a book about southern Appalachia in a contemporary moment of change and development. Layering a personal lyric voice with a broader awareness of labor issues and political and ecological crises, The Upstate redefines a regional poetics as one attuned to national and global systems. These poems observe and emote, mourning acts of devastation and raging in their own quiet way against their continuation. The poems in The Upstate arise from moments of darkness and desperation, mobilizing a critical intelligence against the status quo of place and history, all while fiercely upholding belief in the role of poetry to affect these conditions. Turner's poems weave spells around beloved places and people, yearning to shield them from destruction and to profess faith in the delicate beauties of the world at hand.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Planning
- *
- The Upstate
- Overlook
- Accomplice
- Forms of Displeasure
- Tennessee Quatrains
- New City
- Song of Accumulation
- Spells &
- Charms
- Premonition
- Pretty Like That
- Charm for J
- Charm for W
- Charm for the Neighborhood
- Charm for G
- It Imagines the Destruction It Wants
- Vows
- Superstition
- The Compass
- Tender Publics
- Accomplice (Isabella from Measure for Measure)
- Just Work
- Wasted Empty Space
- It's the Stupidest Thing
- Dogwood
- A Bad Spring
- Vacation Song
- Poem
- Song of Untellable Distances
- The Capitals
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-82865-4
- OCLC:
- 1396697381
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