Six poets from the mountain south
By: John Lang
Series: Southern literary studies; Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780807135600
Description: In the most extensive work to date on major poets from the mountain South, John Lang explores the pervasive religious and spiritual concerns of many of the mountain South's finest writers, including Fred Chappell, Robert Morgan, Jeff Daniel Marion, Kathryn Stripling Byer, and Charles Wright. He employs close readings of the poets' work and relates it to British and American Romanticism as well as contemporary eco-theology and eco-criticism, creating the most ambitious and searching foray yet into the worlds of these renowned post-World War II Appalachian poets.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jim Wayne Miller and the Brier's cosmopolitan regionalism: "you must be born again"; title: Fred Chappell: "flesh-tree and tree of spirit"; title: Robert Morgan: "mountains speak in tongues"; title: Jeff Daniel Marion: "measures of grace"; title: Kathryn Stripling Byer: "laying up treasures on earth"; title: Charles Wright: "the energy of absence".