The Upstate

Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis.   Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne’s lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Turner’s The Upstate is a book about southern Appalachia in a contemporary moment of change and development. Layering a personal lyric voice with a broader awareness of labor issues and political and ecological crises, The Upstate redefines a regional poetics as one attuned to national and global systems. These poems observe and emote, mourning acts of devastation and raging in their own quiet way against their continuation.   The poems in The Upstate arise from moments of darkness and desperation, mobilizing a critical intelligence against the status quo of place and history, all while fiercely upholding belief in the role of poetry to affect these conditions. Turner’s poems weave spells around beloved places and people, yearning to shield them from destruction and to profess faith in the delicate beauties of the world at hand.  

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Phoenix Poets
Release date:	October 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Lindsay Turner
Dimensions:	241 x 165mm (L x W)
Pages:	72
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-82864-0
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-226-82864-6
Barcode:	9780226828640

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