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Poems

Publication Year: 2006

Elizabeth Hadaway doesn’t just tell stories in her poems, she aims to delight as much as instruct, and her poems are scores for performance. Sparkling with shout-outs to Beowulf and Keats, varied meters, and surprising rhymes, she lifts centuries of hurt and anger into a contrary music. Her reach is vast, including everything from T. S. Eliot to the swans on her vinyl lace shower curtains. She warns us off from stereotypes and misconceptions about Appalachia and the South.

Published by: University of Arkansas Press

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E-ISBN-13: 9781610751537
E-ISBN-10: 1610751531
Print-ISBN-13: 9781557288240
Print-ISBN-10: 1557288240

Page Count: 80
Publication Year: 2006

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Acknowledgments

Contents

Was You Born Here?

All Short-a Appalachia

The Black Dog of the Blue Ridge

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Car, of Dale Earnhardt at Daytona

Living with Ballads: Sidna Allen

The Hundredth Summer of the Chestnut Blight

Ghosts for Dinner

American Viscose Plant, 1929

Clampdown

Tiffanie

Drinking Bottled Water

Faculty Parking Apocalypse

The Shower Curtain Swans

Disney Ride Song of the South

Moved, Lost Your Number

Fearing the Loss of My Hounds

Crop Cults

Living with Ballads: The Nutshell Bed

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The Crocodile Dream, Every Seven Years

Magic City Mortgage Co., 1951

Idol Meat

The Consolation of Philosophy

Pets, Ending with My Folks’ First Dog

Barry on Porch, Barry in Parking Lot

A Scratch

An Essay in Criticism

Surf with P. B. Shelley

Amazed at Gray Light

A Good Half Hand

The Banks of Hell

Fancy Gap

Beating My Head on a Curb in California

Silicon Valley, 1998

The Confirmation Gift of a Cat’s Eye Headlight

Duchess

Beginning with a Line by John Berryman

Locket Icon

Richmond Breastworks

Montani Semper Liberi

Praise

Lumber Room

Public Transportation

Living with the Bureau of Public Debt

Notes

Back Cover

Research Areas

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