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Cottonlandia (Juniper Prize for Poetry)
Rebecca Black
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Description for Cottonlandia (Juniper Prize for Poetry)
Paperback. The poems in Rebecca Black's first volume, Cottonlandia, move through myth and landscape, beginning in the deep South's "shimmer and tar" and ending in the "soot and orange dolour" of the California desert. Black's poems describe the archaeology of the apocalypse. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 145.
The poems in Rebecca Black's first volume, Cottonlandia, move through myth and landscape, beginning in the deep South's ""shimmer and tar"" and ending in the ""soot and orange dolor"" of the California desert. Cottonlandia conjures a proto-continent where fashionable golems pose for antique photographs and nineteenth-century naturalists wander into the melee of the civil rights struggle in the South. By turns haunting and comic, Black's poems describe the archaeology of the apocalypse. Countesses leave behind poisonous snapshots, lovers examine their shapes in the mirror, and Seminoles return for skeletons arranged illegally in exhibits, even as floods force antebellum coffins to ... Read more
The poems in Rebecca Black's first volume, Cottonlandia, move through myth and landscape, beginning in the deep South's ""shimmer and tar"" and ending in the ""soot and orange dolor"" of the California desert. Cottonlandia conjures a proto-continent where fashionable golems pose for antique photographs and nineteenth-century naturalists wander into the melee of the civil rights struggle in the South. By turns haunting and comic, Black's poems describe the archaeology of the apocalypse. Countesses leave behind poisonous snapshots, lovers examine their shapes in the mirror, and Seminoles return for skeletons arranged illegally in exhibits, even as floods force antebellum coffins to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558494916
SKU
V9781558494916
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About Rebecca Black
Rebecca Black teaches literature and writing at Santa Clara University. She received a B.A. from Tulane University and an M.F.A. from Indiana University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her poems have been published in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, Missouri Review, and other journals.
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