Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xiii 1. Poetic Historiophoty: Filmic Memory in Robert Penn Warren’s Audubon: A Vision 1 2. Returning the “Undying Cry of the Void”: The Changing Condition of Primal Memory in James Dickey’s Poetry 23 3. Many Returns: Forms of Nostalgia in the Poetry of the Contemporary South 47 4. Lost Highways and Ethereal Landscapes: Cartographic Memory in the Poetry of Charles Wright 87 5. Ghostwriting the Claims of the Dead: Traumatic Memory in Yusef Komunyakaa’s Verse 121 6. Transouthern Hybridities: The Poetics of Countermemory 149 Notes 189 Bibliography 233 Index 245 ...