Cottonlandia

Rebecca F. Black

ISBN 10: 155849491X / ISBN 13: 9781558494916

Edité par University of Massachusetts Press, US, 2005

The poems in Rebecca Black's first volume, Cottonlandia, move through myth and landscape, beginning in the deep South's ""shimmer and tar"" and ending in the ""soot and orange dolor"" of the California desert. Cottonlandia conjures a proto-continent where fashionable golems pose for antique photographs and nineteenth-century naturalists wander into the melee of the civil rights struggle in the South. By turns haunting and comic, Black's poems describe the archaeology of the apocalypse. Countesses leave behind poisonous snapshots, lovers examine their shapes in the mirror, and Seminoles return for skeletons arranged illegally in exhibits, even as floods force antebellum coffins to rise. In the title poem, reproduced on this page, the lines of a spiritual splinter and circle through a loose narrative, evoking the delirium of class and race in the author's Georgia hometown. Throughout the volume, poems quarrel with primal forces, threading the needle of historical oblivion with a dark, intelligent, and incantatory voice. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781558494916

Synopsis :

The poems in Rebecca Black's first volume, Cottonlandia, move through myth and landscape, beginning in the deep South's "shimmer and tar" and ending in the "soot and orange dolor" of the California desert. Cottonlandia conjures a proto-continent where fashionable golems pose for antique photographs and nineteenth-century naturalists wander into the melee of the civil rights struggle in the South.

By turns haunting and comic, Black's poems describe the archaeology of the apocalypse. Countesses leave behind poisonous snapshots, lovers examine their shapes in the mirror, and Seminoles return for skeletons arranged illegally in exhibits, even as floods force antebellum coffins to rise.

In the title poem, reproduced on this page, the lines of a spiritual splinter and circle through a loose narrative, evoking the delirium of class and race in the author's Georgia hometown. Throughout the volume, poems quarrel with primal forces, threading the needle of historical oblivion with a dark, intelligent, and incantatory voice.

À propos de l?auteur: A former Wallace Stegner and NEA fellow, Rebecca Black is an assistant professor in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. In 2011, she was a Fulbright scholar at the Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her poems have been published in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Pleiades, Colorado Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other journals. Online, poems and interviews can be found at From the Fishouse and Blackbird magazine. Originally from Albany, Georgia, Black has a B.A. from Tulane University and an M.F.A. from Indiana University. Previously, she has taught at Santa Clara University and in the Writer's Studio at Stanford University. She and her family now divide their time between North Carolina and San Francisco.Her website is: http: //cottonlandia.com/

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Cottonlandia
Éditeur : University of Massachusetts Press, US
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : New