In this volume, Marion Montgomery ponders two very different
varieties of possum as the starting point for a literary,
philosophical, and poetic inquiry into the nature of Southernness.
The first possum is the familiar marsupial, native to the American
South, in whose modest status can be seen an image of the lowly
ground to which all our dreams must remain anchored. The second
possum is the first-person singular present of the Latin verb
posse; rendered as "I am able," this possum embodies the movement
in which men, since the Old Adam, have elevated themselves beyond
their estate, taking for themselves sole credit for the world they
see around them.
Prescribing a way of thought by which men can regain the balance
that modernity has led them to relinquish, "Possum, and Other
Receits for the Recovery of "Southern" Being" posits a concept of
Southernness that is a state of the soul rather than a result of
geography, a Southernness in which man's mind and his moments of
vision are kept in harmony with nature, with the reality of the
world given to man.
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