| Description |
189 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
From Domestic work -- Limen -- Early evening, Frankfort, Kentucky -- Family portrait -- Flounder -- White lies -- Gathering -- Picture gallery -- Domestic Work -- Domestic work, 1937 -- Speculation, 1939 -- Secular -- Signs, Oakvale, Mississippi, 1941 -- Expectant -- Tableau -- At the station -- Naola Beauty Academy, New Orleans, 1945 -- Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 -- His hands -- Self-employment, 1970 -- Gesture of a woman in process -- From Bellocq's Ophelia -- Bellocq's Ophelia -- Letter home -- Countess P---'s advice for new girls -- Storyville diary -- Native guard -- Theories of time and space -- The southern crescent -- Genus narcissus -- Graveyard blues -- What the body can say -- Photograph: Ice storm, 1971 -- What is evidence -- Letter -- After your death -- Myth -- At dusk -- Pilgrimage -- Scenes from a documentary history of Mississippi -- King Cotton, 1907 -- Glyph, Aberdeen, 1913 -- Flood -- You are late -- Native guard -- Again, the fields -- Pastoral -- Miscegenation -- My mother dreams another country -- Southern history -- Blond -- Southern gothic -- Incident -- Providence -- Monument -- Elegy for the native guards -- South -- From Congregation -- Invocation, 1926 -- Congregation -- Witness -- Watcher -- Believer -- Kin -- Exegesis -- Prodigal -- Benediction -- Liturgy -- From Thrall -- Illuminbation -- Knowledge -- Miracle of the black leg -- The Americans -- Taxonomy -- hrall -- Calling -- |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781328507846 (hardcover) |
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