Daniel Cross Turner and William Wright's anthology Hard Lines:
Rough South Poetry centers on the darker side of southern
experience while presenting a remarkable array of poets from
diverse backgrounds in the American South. As tough-minded as they
are high-minded, the sixty contemporary poets and two hundred poems
anthologized in Hard Lines enhance the powerful genre of ""Grit
Lit."" The volume gathers the work of poets who have for some
decades formed the heart of southern poetry as well as that of
emerging voices who will soon become significant figures in
southern literature. These poems sting our sensesinto awareness of
a gritty world down South: hard work, hard love, hard drinking,
hard times; but they also explore the importance of the land and
rural experience, as well as race- , gender- , and class-based
conflicts. Readers will see, hear (for poetry is meant to ring in
the ears), and feel (for poetry is meant to beat in the blood);
there is plenty of raucousness in this anthology.And yet the
cultural conflicts that ignite southern wildness are often depicted
in a manner that is lyrical without becoming lugubrious, mournful
but not maudlin. Some of these poets are coming to terms with a
visibly transforming culture--a ""roughness"" in and of itself.
Indeed many of these poets are helping to change the definition of
the South. The anthology also features biographical information on
each poet in addition to further reading suggestions and scholarly
sources on contemporary poetry. Featured Poets: Betty Adcock, David
Bottoms, Kathryn Stripling Byer, James Dickey, Rodney Jones, Yusef
Komunyakaa, Ron Rash, Dave Smith , Natasha Trethewey, Charles
Wright, Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke,
Kate Daniels, Kwame Dawes, Claudia Emerson, Andrew Hudgins, T. R.
Hummer, Robert Morgan, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Dan Albergotti, Tarfia
Faizullah, Forrest Gander, Terrance Hayes, Judy Jordan, John Lane,
Michael McFee, Paul Ruffin, Steve Scafidi, Jake Adam York
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