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ancestral and spectral themes
apocalyptic symbolism in art
archaeological imagination
archaeological motifs in literature
Author_Rebecca F. Black
avant garde literary poetry
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class tension themes in poetry
contemporary American poetry collection
contemporary mythmaking
cultural hauntings in verse
dark lyric voice
elegiac and incantatory tones
environmental aftermath imagery
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experimental American verse
experimental poetic form
folkloric imagery in modern poems
fragmented spiritual motifs
gothic southern literary traditions
historical revision through verse
hybrid narrative poems
landscape driven literature
lyrical surreal verse
modern gothic sensibility
myth layered poetic landscapes
poetic excavation of memory
poetic hauntology
poetic meditations on history
poetic symbolism and allegory
political memory in poetry
psychologically charged lyricism
racial memory in literature
regional identity exploration
revisionist historical imagination
ritualistic language in poetry
speculative historical poetry
subversive pastoral aesthetics
surreal Americana aesthetics
symbolic geographies in verse
transformative poetic storytelling
transgressive literary landscapes
uncanny domestic imagery
unsettling beauty in verse
Product details
- ISBN 9781558494916
- Weight: 256g
- Dimensions: 154 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jun 2005
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Rebecca Black teaches literature and writing at Santa Clara University. She received a B.A. from Tulane University and an M.F.A. from Indiana University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her poems have been published in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, Missouri Review, and other journals.
