Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine : Poems

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911009187603321
• Autore: Graves Jesse
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: College Station : , : Texas Review Press, , 2022; ©2022
• ISBN: 9781680032680; 1680032682
• Edizione: [10th anniversary expanded edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (97 pages)
• Collana: 21st Century Poets Series ; ; v.28
• Altri autori (Persone): WimberleyMatthew
• Disciplina: 811/.6
• Soggetti: Poetry; Appalachian Region; Appalachian Region Poetry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Matthew Wimberley -- For the Frozen Wood -- Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine -- River Gods -- Firing Order -- At Seven -- Digging the Pond -- Elegy for a Hay Rake -- Johnson's Ground -- St. Paul -- The Night Cafe: North Rendon, New Orleans -- Detroit Muscle -- His Confession -- Sparrow -- The Donkey on the Road -- Emissaries -- Bayou Storm -- Elemental Study -- Wrightsville Beach -- Time and the Motions Our Bodies Made -- The Road into the Lake -- Morning Sky, September 2001 -- Understory -- For Richard Wilbur -- The Pier at 5 AM -- Wild Strawberries at St. Mary's Hospital -- Piano Key -- Reservation Snapshot -- Devil's Snuff -- Facing West from Cumberland Gap -- Trade -- Revivals -- Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake -- Water Washing Away -- Mother's Milk -- The Upper Ridge -- Most Distant Antiquity -- An Exile -- Outlaw Songs -- Some of His Stories Were True -- Falling Back Again -- Redpolls Feeding -- Garden District -- The Door that Opens into the Room -- Not at War -- Indolence -- Shallow Water over Sand -- Rural Route Gallery -- Field Portrait -- Late Summer Woodcut -- My Sister at Sea -- Temper in a Time of War -- Vista -- Search Program -- Equations -- The Wilderness Trail -- Nightjar Songs -- Echolalia -- Deep Corner -- Big Elm Point.
• Sommario/riassunto: "First released in 2011, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine was the debut poetry collection from Tennessee poet Jesse Graves and was awarded the 2011 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, the Book of the Year in Poetry Award from the Appalachian Writers' Association, and the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. The poems in Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine take part in many of the traditions of lyric poetry, including elegies for lost loved ones, odes to the beauty of family and the natural world, expressed through a range of poetic forms and techniques. The 10th Anniversary Edition includes twelve new poems and an introduction by Matthew Wimberley"--