ANOTHER SOUTH by Bill Lavender (Editor), Hank Lazer ( 9780817312404 )

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Title:

ANOTHER SOUTH
EXPERIMENTAL WRITING IN THE SOUTH

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ISBN 10:

0817312404

ISBN 13:

9780817312404

Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS

Pub. date:

27 November, 2002

Series:

Modern & Contemporary Poetics

Pages:

304

Description:

An anthology of poetry from contemporary writers of the southern United States who are working in forms that are considered radical, innovative and visionary. The volume offers syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions and typographic playfulness and represents a new direction for writing.

Synopsis:

This collection gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poets, deepening understanding of modern poetry and poetics. Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of southern writing that is at once universal in its appeal and regional in its flavor. Focusing on poets currently residing in the South, the anthology includes both emerging and established voices in the national and international literary world From the invocations of Andy Young's "Vodou Headwashing Ceremony" to the blues-informed poems of Lorenzo Thomas and Honoree Jeffers, from the different voicings of John Lowther and Kalamu ya Salaam to the visual, multi-genre art of Jake Berry, David Thomas Roberts, and Bob Grumman, the poetry in Another South is rich in variety and enthusiastic in its explorations of new ways to embody place and time.These writers have made the South lush with a poetic avant-garde all its own, not only redefining southern identity and voice but also offering new models of what is possible universally through the medium of poetry. Hank Lazer's introductory essay about "Kudzu textuality" contextualizes the work by these contemporary innovators. Like the uncontrollable runaway vine that entwines the southern landscape, their poems are hyperfertile, stretching their roots and shoots relentlessly, at once destructive and regenerative. In making a radical departure from nostalgic southern literary voices, these poems of polyvocal abundance are closer in spirit to "speaking in tongues" or apocalyptic southern folk art - primitive, astonishing, and mystic.

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