03379nam 2200589 a 450 991045278060332120200520144314.00-8093-8758-11-299-05074-3(CKB)2550000000996691(EBL)1354553(OCoLC)856870408(SSID)ssj0000822428(PQKBManifestationID)11437071(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822428(PQKBWorkID)10759564(PQKB)10334235(MiAaPQ)EBC1354553(OCoLC)828869957(MdBmJHUP)muse25899(Au-PeEL)EBL1354553(CaPaEBR)ebr10654950(CaONFJC)MIL436324(EXLCZ)99255000000099669120060811d2007 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrRed clay suite[electronic resource] /Honorée Fanonne JeffersCarbondale Crab Orchard Review Southern Illinois University Pressc20071 online resource (87 p.)Crab Orchard series in poetry : open competition awardDescription based upon print version of record.0-8093-2760-0 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Red Clay Suite; 1. Migration Cantos; Word on Earth; Passing; Giving Thanks for Water; An Angel, Unaware; The Compass of Moss; Let Blood Go; Cotton Field Sestina; Eatonton (Two); Driving Interstate West through Georgia; 2. Dark Pastoral; Blues Aubade (or, Revision of the Lean, Post-Modernist Pastorale); Mister Buzzard and Brother Crow; Consider My Brother as the Rabbit; Dirty South Moon; Here, One of Your Four Women; One Morning Soon; Poem for Birds; Another Easter PoemI've Been Up Late Reading the Book of Poems You Inscribed and Mailed to MeTheir Splendid; The Blues I Don't Want to Remember; What Is Written for Me; Lexicon; 3. Red Clay Reprise; The Little Boy Who Will Be My Father; Suddenly in Grace; The Subject of Gardening; Days Are Plain; Eatonton (One); Reunion Scripture; Why I Will Praise an Old Black Man; What Grief Is; Hawk Hoof Tea; Oklahoma Naming; Upon Learning That My Indian Student Is a Sundancer; Notes; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in PoetryIn her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue and Outlandish Blues, use the blues poetic to explore notions of history and trauma. Now, in Red Clay Suite, Jeffersapproaches the southern landscape as utopia and dystopia-a crossroads of race, gender, and blood. These poems signal the ending movement of her crossroads blues and complete the last four "bars" of a blues song, resting on the final, and essential, noteCrab Orchard award series in poetry.Southern StatesPoetryElectronic books.811/.6Jeffers Honorée Fanonne1967-995440MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452780603321Red clay suite2280627UNINA