21st century
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aging
American South
Author_Rodney Jones
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character-driven
childhood home
endurance
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feeling
funny
grief
gritty
local history
memory
narrative
New Orleans
nostalgia
regional
rural life
southern poetry
Product details
- ISBN 9780807180105
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Alabama focuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Labyrinth, meditation, fable, and peasant poem, formed from interleaved strands of prose vignettes and lineated poetry, this collection is at once a tale of cultural exile and familial loyalty, and an unflinching look at regional shame that doubles as a love story, all expressed with the intimate voice and vision of Rodney Jones.
One of the most honored poets of his generation, Rodney Jones has been praised for his narrative and lyrical skills, as well as the empathy, intelligence, accessibility, and original humor of his work. He is the author of eleven poetry books, including Salvation Blues, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Elegy for the Southern Drawl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2016, he became the second poet to be inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame.
