LEADER 04358nam 2200613 450 001 9910825980303321 005 20230803204346.0 010 $a0-8093-3357-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000222492 035 $a(EBL)1769561 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001335051 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11994103 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001335051 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11272363 035 $a(PQKB)10828885 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1769561 035 $a(OCoLC)888749109 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35550 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1769561 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10910265 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL638917 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000222492 100 $a20140830h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aZion /$fTJ Jarrett 210 1$aCarbondale, Illinois :$cCrab Orchard Review :$cSouthern Illinois University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (89 p.) 225 1 $aCrab Orchard Series in Poetry 300 $a"Open Competition Award." 311 $a1-322-07666-9 311 $a0-8093-3356-2 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; One; My Grandmother Describes the Radiance; At the Hospital; Theodore Bilbo Attends My Sickbed; Meridian, MS 1978: Miss Polly Attends the Altar at Mt. Zion; The Body Sings to All Its Parts; When They Say You Can't Go Home; Meridian, Last Night; How to Love the Country of Your Birth; Theodore Bilbo Begins His Confession; Two; How a Question Becomes a Lie; Theodore Bilbo and I Reverse the Miracle; Miss Polly Experiences the Consequences of Gravity; The Precipitating Event; Meridian, MS 1958: My Grandmother Meditates on the Miracles of the Christ 327 $a1973: My Mother Cleaves Herself in Two How We Arrived; Meridian, MS 1951: Vice in Proper Form; Along the Way to Dockery Farms; In the Years Following Rescue; Three; What I Did in My Time Away from Words; Meridian, MS 1963: My Mother Considers the Mechanics of Flight; I Begin My Confession; The Burgomaster Said I Could Do Whatever I Wanted to You; Theodore Bilbo and I Begin Our Crossing; How the Past Tense Turns a Whole Sentence Dark; Everything Men Know about Women; The Peonies at the Bodega; Consolation; We Are Soldiers in the Army of the Lord; Theodore Bilbo & I Consider the End of Days 327 $aAnd through the Dark Theodore Bilbo and I Take Tea on the Veranda; The Living Always Chase the Dead; Four; Okatibbee River 2012; On Bathing Her Mother; Theodore Bilbo and I Survey the Ruin; My Grandfather Appears to Me on the Eve of My Grandmother's Passing; This Is How I Love Her; After Forty Days, Go Marry Again; Theodore Bilbo Mistakes Me for the Angel of Death; Kyrie: Notes to the God I Cannot See; The Trouble with Lightning; Meridian, MS 1964: They Moaned So Much They Called It Song; Meridian, MS 1964: At the Solstice, the World Is Flooded with Light 327 $aTheodore Bilbo and I Survey the Contours of Zion Five; At the Repast; What We Find at the End of the World; How to Love the Country of Your Birth; Theodore Bilbo and I Wander the Farther Shore; How to Grieve; Theodore Bilbo and I Wait Out the Storm; Theodore Bilbo and I at Last Turn Face to Face; Acknowledgments; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover 330 $aZion, the latest collection of poems by TJ Jarrett, is the poignant study of the resonating effects of the civil rights movement on one family. Jarrett lovingly explores the minutiae of mortality and race across three generations of "Dark Girls" who have come together one summer to grieve and to remember as one of them passes to the farther shore-a place beyond retribution, where there is only forgiveness. The Mississippi of Jarrett's collection is alive with fireflies and locusts and murders of crows; yet for some, it is a wasteland of unanswered prayers, burning evenings, and the shades of 410 0$aCrab Orchard award series in poetry. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y21st century 615 0$aAmerican poetry 676 $a811/.6 686 $aPOE005010$2bisacsh 700 $aJarrett$b TJ$f1973-$01637052 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825980303321 996 $aZion$93978628 997 $aUNINA