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Fire Baton: Poems (The Arkansas Poetry Series)
Elizabeth Hadaway
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Description for Fire Baton: Poems (The Arkansas Poetry Series)
Paperback. Contains short lyrics and long narratives, poems about ballads, baton twirling, hound dogs, Shelley, and NASCAR stars. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Elizabeth Hadaway doesn't just tell stories in her poems, she aims to delight as much as instruct, and her poems are scores for performance. Sparkling with shout-outs to Beowulf and Keats, varied meters, and surprising rhymes, she lifts centuries of hurt and anger into a contrary music. Her reach is vast, including everything from T. S. Eliot to the swans on her vinyl lace shower curtains. She warns us off from stereotypes and misconceptions about Appalachia and the South. Here are short lyrics and long narratives, poems about ballads, baton twirling, hound dogs, Shelley, and NASCAR stars.
Elizabeth Hadaway doesn't just tell stories in her poems, she aims to delight as much as instruct, and her poems are scores for performance. Sparkling with shout-outs to Beowulf and Keats, varied meters, and surprising rhymes, she lifts centuries of hurt and anger into a contrary music. Her reach is vast, including everything from T. S. Eliot to the swans on her vinyl lace shower curtains. She warns us off from stereotypes and misconceptions about Appalachia and the South. Here are short lyrics and long narratives, poems about ballads, baton twirling, hound dogs, Shelley, and NASCAR stars.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288240
SKU
V9781557288240
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About Elizabeth Hadaway
Elizabeth Leigh Palmer Hadaway lives in Kingsvill, Maryland. She was an instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University and worked as an historical interpreter at Agecroft Hall in Richmond, Virginia. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has received scholarships to the Breadloaf and Sewanee writer's conferences.
Reviews for Fire Baton: Poems (The Arkansas Poetry Series)
Fire Baton is an immense achievement. Here is wit acid and sweet, angry and gentle, tonic and forgiving. Every line shines with the excellence of poetic craft. . . . Hadaway's satire is deceptive in its strength. If you think you feel a pinprick, better look again. It may be a bullet hole." —Fred Chappell, author of Backsass: Poems ... Read more