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lore (Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry)
McCombs & Bierds
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Description for lore (Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry)
Paperback. Drawn from the rich folk traditions of his native Mammoth Cave region in Kentucky as well as the folklore of his adopted Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the poems in Davis McCombs's third collection exist along the fraught lines where nature and agriculture collide or in those charged moments where modernity intrudes on an archaic world. Series: Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize. Num Pages: 94 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Drawn from the rich folk traditions of his native Mammoth Cave region in Kentucky as well as the folklore of his adopted Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the poems in Davis McCombs’s third collection exist along the fraught lines where nature and agriculture collide or in those charged moments where modernity intrudes on an archaic world. These poems celebrate out-of-the-way places, the lore of plants, wild animals and their unknowable lives, and nearly forgotten ways of being and talking and doing. Rendered in a language of great lexical juxtapositions, here are days of soil and labor, nights lit only by firelight, ... Read more
Drawn from the rich folk traditions of his native Mammoth Cave region in Kentucky as well as the folklore of his adopted Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the poems in Davis McCombs’s third collection exist along the fraught lines where nature and agriculture collide or in those charged moments where modernity intrudes on an archaic world. These poems celebrate out-of-the-way places, the lore of plants, wild animals and their unknowable lives, and nearly forgotten ways of being and talking and doing. Rendered in a language of great lexical juxtapositions, here are days of soil and labor, nights lit only by firelight, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Series
Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize
Number of Pages
66
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607814818
SKU
V9781607814818
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About McCombs & Bierds
Davis McCombs is the author of two previous collections of poetry. His first book, Ultima Thule, was chosen by W. S. Merwin as the winner of the 1999 Yale Series of Younger Poets. It was also selected as one of five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, Dismal Rock, was awarded the Dorset Prize, the ... Read more
Reviews for lore (Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry)
In thirty-eight haunting poems, McCombs offers that something to usa wholeness attained not only through the stories and traditions of a culture but through the fusion of poet and place, poet and past. Here are the caves and petroglyphs, the widows and children and workers, the animals of legend and the animals of the fields. Unwavering precision is a hallmark ... Read more