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Red Clay Suite (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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Description for Red Clay Suite (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Paperback. A book of poems which expresses the poet's familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. It approaches the southern landscape as utopia and dystopia - a crossroads of race, gender, and blood. Series Editor(s): Tribble, Jon. Series: Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 159.
In her third book of poems, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry, ""The Gospel of Barbecue"" and ""Outlandish Blues"", use the blues poetic to explore notions of history and trauma. Now, in ""Red Clay Suite"", Jeffers approaches the southern landscape as utopia and dystopia - a crossroads of race, gender, and blood. These poems signal the ending movement of her crossroads blues and complete the last four ""bars"" of a blues song, resting on the final, and essential, note ... Read more
In her third book of poems, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry, ""The Gospel of Barbecue"" and ""Outlandish Blues"", use the blues poetic to explore notions of history and trauma. Now, in ""Red Clay Suite"", Jeffers approaches the southern landscape as utopia and dystopia - a crossroads of race, gender, and blood. These poems signal the ending movement of her crossroads blues and complete the last four ""bars"" of a blues song, resting on the final, and essential, note ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Series
Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809327607
SKU
V9780809327607
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About Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, an assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, is the author of two other books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue and Outlandish Blues.
Reviews for Red Clay Suite (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Anyone who's had the pleasure of reading Honoree Jeffers's poems knows that she's a blues poet with things to say and new ways of saying them. Red Clay Suite is her best book to date, and a triumph; she uses everyday language and she makes it sing. - Ed Ochester, editor of American Poetry Now: The Pitt Poetry Series Anthology ... Read more