How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature
"Offers a lively, even combative, counter-thesis to many of the trite and possibly untrue notions about Southern writing many of us seemed to have imbibed with our mothers’ milk. Whether agreeing or markedly disagreeing, readers will find reverend assumptions entertainingly challenged. Bracing! Innervating! Spoiling for a fight!"--Fred Chappell, North Carolina Poet Laureate 1997-2002