Madness like Morning Glories - Poems (Paperback)

In her enchanting poem sequence, Doris Davenport introduces readers to Soque Street and its ""Affrilachian"" residents. These African Americans inhabiting an Appalachian community in northeast Georgia live in a world where magic threads daily life and the living and dead commingle. Ghosts, self-propelled caskets, and sensate trees are as natural as morning glories to these characters, who are at once eccentric and universal, peculiar and welcoming. Spoken in intersecting and overlapping monologues, the poems create a refreshing portrait of small-town life, with its mix of quotidian concerns and the larger experiences of love, passion, grief, jealousy, and madness. The story of Soque Street moves from voice to voice and through poetic forms with ease and confidence. Sometimes frightening, often funny, and always compelling and potent, madness like morning glories is a major achievement by a poet of tremendous originality who possesses an intuition for the subtle secrets of language.

General

Imprint:	Louisiana State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2005
First published:	May 2005
Authors:	Doris Davenport
Dimensions:	222 x 152 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	64
ISBN-13:	978-0-8071-2992-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8071-2992-5
Barcode:	9780807129920

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