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Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize
Drawn from the rich folk traditions of his native Mammoth Cave region in Kentucky as well as the folklore of his adopted Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the poems in Davis McCombs’s third collection exist along the fraught lines where nature and agriculture collide or in those charged moments where modernity intrudes on an archaic world. These poems celebrate out-of-the-way places, the lore of plants, wild animals and their unknowable lives, and nearly forgotten ways of being and talking and doing. Rendered in a language of great lexical juxtapositions, here are days of soil and labor, nights lit only by firelight, and the beings, possibly not of this world, lured like moths to its flames. McCombs, always a poet of place and of rootedness, writes poems teetering between two locales, one familiar but achingly distant, one bewildering but alluringly present.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Tradition Bearer
- pp. 1-2
- A Family Story
- pp. 4-5
- Wind in the Ozarks
- pp. 6-7
- Dumpster Honey
- pp. 8-9
- In His Own Country
- pp. 10-11
- Freshwater Drum
- pp. 12-13
- Gray Fox, a Resolution of Sorrow
- pp. 14-17
- Liquid Assets
- p. 21
- Sight Unseen
- p. 23
- Found Downriver
- pp. 24-25
- Not Untwist
- p. 29
- The Hill Itself
- pp. 31-32
- Ozark Landscape
- p. 34
- The Sign of the Muskellunge
- pp. 35-36
- Playing the Beer Can
- p. 37
- It Took Some Doin’
- p. 38
- biomass: a genealogy
- p. 41
- dot dot dot
- p. 45
- eternal, restless
- p. 48
- lupophobia
- pp. 49-50
- riddle/translation
- pp. 54-56
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 63-66
Additional Information
ISBN
9781607814825
Related ISBN(s)
9781607814818
MARC Record
OCLC
952109761
Pages
64
Launched on MUSE
2016-06-26
Language
English
Open Access
No