In this Book
- Red Clay Suite
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
- Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
summary
In her third book of poems, Honorée 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, Jeffersapproaches 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 of resolution and reconciliation.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. iii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Prologue
- Red Clay Suite
- pp. 3-4
- 1. Migration Cantos
- Word on Earth
- pp. 7-8
- Giving Thanks for Water
- pp. 12-13
- An Angel, Unaware
- pp. 14-15
- The Compass of Moss
- pp. 16-17
- Let Blood Go
- pp. 18-19
- Cotton Field Sestina
- pp. 20-21
- Eatonton (Two)
- pp. 22-23
- 2. Dark Pastoral
- Mister Buzzard and Brother Crow
- pp. 29-31
- Dirty South Moon
- pp. 33-34
- One Morning Soon
- p. 36
- Poem for Birds
- pp. 37-38
- Another Easter Poem
- p. 39
- Their Splendid
- pp. 41-42
- What Is Written for Me
- pp. 44-45
- 3. Red Clay Reprise
- The Little Boy Who Will Be My Father
- pp. 51-52
- Suddenly in Grace
- p. 53
- Days Are Plain
- pp. 55-56
- Eatonton (One)
- pp. 57-58
- Reunion Scripture
- pp. 59-60
- What Grief Is
- pp. 62-63
- Hawk Hoof Tea
- pp. 64-65
- Oklahoma Naming
- pp. 66-67
Additional Information
ISBN
9780809387588
Related ISBN(s)
9780809327607
MARC Record
OCLC
828869957
Pages
88
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2007