num_pages: 91
description: Mississippi Vistas has an admirably firm design as a whole. Not many poets can plan and execute a book in that fashion. First you approach Mississippi and Oxford as an outlander, but one imbued with Faulkner; then you write about the land and its people; then from the countryside you turn to the town of Oxford; then you approach the shrine itself, and depart from it (though not as you came). All that is beautifully conceived. The book as a whole is an achievement. Malcom Cowley, author of Exile’s Return and editor of The Portable Faulkner
language: English
title: Mississippi Vistas: Volume One of A Mississippi Trilogy
titlecomplete: Mississippi Vistas: Volume One of A Mississippi Trilogy
publisher: Time Being Books