Southbound
Subtitle: interviews with southern poets
By: by Ernest Suarez with T.W. Stanford, III and Amy Verner.
Contributors: Stanford, T. W., 1969-; Verner, Amy, 1974-
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.; American poetry -- Southern States -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.; Poetry -- Authorship.; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-; Southern States -- In literature.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: "Beginning with an interview with the late literary giant James Dickey, Southbound collects the ideas and insights of both well-known and rising southern poets, including Dave Smith, Charles Wright, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Rodney Jones. Suarez's guiding principle for conducting and revising the interviews was to let the poets express themselves as clearly and fully as possible.

Each interview is ultimately defined by the poet's own personality and voice, yet all explore similar themes - the relationship between technique and subject, the nature of the southern canon and each poet's place in it, and the state of contemporary poetry."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-256).