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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778041603321

Titolo

Another South [[electronic resource] ] : experimental writing in the South / / edited by Bill Lavender ; introduction by Hank Lazer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8173-8289-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Modern and contemporary poetics

Altri autori (Persone)

LavenderBill <1951->

Disciplina

811/.608011/0975

Soggetti

Experimental poetry, American - Southern States

American poetry - Southern States

Southern States Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Poetry Scouting Mission: At the Intersection of Southern and Experimental, by Hank Lazer; Ralph Adamo; Sandy Baldwin; Jake Berry; Holley Blackwell; Dave Brinks; Joel Dailey; Brett Evans; Skip Fox; Jessica Freeman; Bob Grumman; Ken Harris; HonoreĢe Fanonne Jeffers; Marla Jernigan; Joy Lahey; Bill Lavender; Hank Lazer; Jim Leftwich; )ohn Lowther; Dana Lisa Lustig; Camille Martin; Jerry McGuire; Thomas Meyer; A. di Michele; Mark Prejsnar; Randy Prunty; Alex Rawls; David Thomas Roberts; Kalamu ya Salaam; James Sanders; Christy Sheffield Sanford

Lorenzo ThomasStephanie Williams; Andy Young; Seth Young; Contributors - Poetics

Sommario/riassunto

Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of southern writing that is at once universal in its appeal and regional in its flavor.  Focusing on poets currently residing in the South, the anthology includes both emerging and established voices in the national and internati