Red Clay Suite |
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| Author:
| Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne |
| Series title: | Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8093-8758-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2007 |
| Publisher: | Southern Illinois University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $13.99 |
Book Description:
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In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry,
The Gospel of Barbecue and
Outlandish Blues, use the blues poetic to explore notions of history and trauma. Now, in
Red Clay Suite, Jeffersapproaches the southern landscape as utopia and dystopia--a crossroads of race, gender, and blood. These...
More Description In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue and Outlandish Blues, use the blues poetic to explore notions of history and trauma. Now, in Red Clay Suite, Jeffersapproaches the southern landscape as utopia and dystopia--a crossroads of race, gender, and blood. These poems signal the ending movement of her crossroads blues and complete the last four "bars" of a blues song, resting on the final, and essential, note of resolution and reconciliation.