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Signals (Winners of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize)
Ed Madden
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Description for Signals (Winners of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize)
Paperback. Offers meditations on cultural memory, race relations, and sexual identity in the South. This collection of poems couples engagements with topics of race and sexuality with reflections on personal and cultural histories. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 132.
This title offers meditations on cultural memory, race relations, and sexual identity in the New South.Deeply rooted in the recognizable landscapes and legacies of the American South, these lyric poems couple daring engagements with topics of race and sexuality with tender reflections on personal and cultural histories. Madden's adopted home of South Carolina rises to the surface in poems set at Folly Beach, Fort Moultrie, Lake Keowee-Toxaway, and Middleton Place. His interrogations of social oppression evoke the ubiquitous iconography of the bygone Confederacy, a first encounter with the miniseries Roots, and a cameo appearance by Strom Thurmond. In the collection's ... Read more
This title offers meditations on cultural memory, race relations, and sexual identity in the New South.Deeply rooted in the recognizable landscapes and legacies of the American South, these lyric poems couple daring engagements with topics of race and sexuality with tender reflections on personal and cultural histories. Madden's adopted home of South Carolina rises to the surface in poems set at Folly Beach, Fort Moultrie, Lake Keowee-Toxaway, and Middleton Place. His interrogations of social oppression evoke the ubiquitous iconography of the bygone Confederacy, a first encounter with the miniseries Roots, and a cameo appearance by Strom Thurmond. In the collection's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Univ of South Carolina Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570037504
SKU
V9781570037504
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About Ed Madden
Ed Madden is an associate professor of English and director of the Undergraduate Program in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina as well as writer in residence at the Riverbanks Botanical Gardens in Columbia, South Carolina. He earned his B.A. in English from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, a B.S. in biblical studies from the Institute ... Read more
Reviews for Signals (Winners of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize)
Signals combines a matter of fact lyrical eye with a view to harder social realities, and there is a consistency in the collection, a working with and around couplets and tercets, a sparseness that seems to match an arid landscape, a place where one searches for hope. This collection bears the evidence of a high level of craft alongside a ... Read more