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Poems of the American South

Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series

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This one-of-a-kind collection of poems about the American South ranges over four centuries of its dramatic history.

 

The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically vibrant. Poems of the American South includes poems both by Southerners and by famous observers of the South who hailed from elsewhere. These range from Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe through Langston Hughes, Robert Penn Warren, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, and Donald Justice, and include a host of living poets as well: Wendell Berry, Rita Dove, Sandra Cisneros, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, C. D. Wright, and Natasha Trethewey.

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“Poems of the American South, the newest addition to the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series, is a beauty . . .History and simple pleasures are its twin forces."

— The Boston Globe

 

“Enchanting . . . gems.""

— Alice Quinn, The Dish

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Poems of the American South

Random House

2014

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