Isbn: 9780813920733 - invited guest: an anthropology of twentieth-century southern poetry (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 296 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New. &Uumlber den AutorDavid Rigsbee is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Language and Literature at Mount Olive College, and the author of six collections of poetry and critical works on Joseph Brodsky and Carolyn Kizer. S.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mencken's stinging characterization of the American South as 'the Sahara of the Bozart' reflects an understandable frustration with the narrow view of the canon of southern literature. With its focus on novelists, it largely ignores the works of all but a few poets -- the Fugitives Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom, and the larger-than-life James Dickey among them. Invited Guest is the first anthology that attempts to reach beyond this small coterie to encompass the range and brilliance of twentieth-century southern poetry. Editors David Rigsbee and Steven Ford Brown have compiled the works of a richly diverse collection of poets -- all born or raised southerners.…