{"product_id":"beyond-the-chandeleurs","title":"Beyond the Chandeleurs","description":"In \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Chandeleurs\u003c\/i\u003e, David Middleton completes a long journey home to his native South, his beloved Louisiana, and his Anglican faith. This collection, whose title refers to barrier islands off the Louisiana coast, takes the poet beyond earlier doubts concerning the cosmos and its Creator to a loving trust in Providence often expressed in psalm-like poems that celebrate both the beauty and the rational intelligibility of the natural order of things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Louisiana poems- set in the Protestant north of the poet's childhood and in the Roman Catholic south where he now resides- richly evoke the flora, fauna, geography, and history of the state and also honor family members, including Middleton's father, who is memorialized in \u003cem\u003eFor an Artist with Parkinson's.\u003c\/em\u003e In \u003cem\u003eThe Duck Hunt,\u003c\/em\u003e Middleton contrasts the oil rigs off the Louisiana coast- where men desperately seek more oil to keep the modern world going- with the primitive coastland marshes where hunters are taken back momentarily to archaic times (\"\"This open wilderness of grass and mud\"\"). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther poems, such as \u003cem\u003eThe Yeoman Farmers,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eDinner on the Ground,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOak Alley,\u003c\/em\u003e are meditations on the history of the South that reveal Middleton as a late inheritor of the Agrarian tradition. Indeed, \u003cem\u003eAt Franklin\u003c\/em\u003e is in direct response to Allen Tate's famous \u003cem\u003eOde to the Confederate Dead,\u003c\/em\u003e to letters on that poem between Tate and Donald Davidson, and to Davidson's own answering poem to Tate, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Charge.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its extraordinary sense of place, artful storytelling, and wide range of verse forms and language, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Chandeleurs\u003c\/i\u003e is a volume to cherish.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807349686616,"sku":"9780807123782","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/beyond-the-chandeleurs","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}