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Here, published in a single volume as Faulkner always hoped they
would be, are the three novels that comprise the famous Snopes
trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of
Faulkner's imagination. "The Hamlet, "the first book of the series
chronicling the advent and rise of the grasping Snopes family in
mythical Yoknapatawpha County, is a work that Cleanth Brooks called
"one of the richest novels in the Faulkner canon." It recounts how
the wily, cunning Flem Snopes dominates the rural community of
Frenchman's Bend--and claims the voluptuous Eula Varner as his
bride. "The Town, " the second novel, records Flem's ruthless
struggle to take over the county seat of Jefferson, Mississippi.
Finally, "The Mansion "tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of
honor brings about the downfall of his cousin Flem. "For all his
concerns with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the
nature of man," noted Ralph Ellison. "Thus we must turn to him for
that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of
our classics."
The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations
of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies,
and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the
surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes,
and Menander. This volume presents fresh versions of Sophocles's
Theban plays, which include the most famous of the ancient Greek
tragedies, King Oedipus. Sophocles reveals the history of Oedipus
from the fulfillment of the oracle that foretold he would kill his
father, outwit the Sphinx, marry his mother, and have a family,
through his banishment and tortured death as a blind man and the
attempted redemption of the family by his daughter, Antigone.
Translations are by Jascha Kessler (King Oedipus), George Garrett
(Oedipus at Colonus), and Kelly Cherry (Antigone).
To drink deep of the direction and sensibility of contemporary
southern fiction, savor each dram in this delectable volume.
Nineteen of the South's most venerable writers -- Madison Smartt
Bell, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Shelby Foote,
George Garrett, Allan Gurganus, Barry Hannah, William Hoffman,
Madison Jones, Michael Knight, William Henry Lewis, Jill McCorkle,
Lewis Nordan, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer,
Walter Sullivan, and Allen Wier -- have selected a short work for
inclusion here. All of the contributors are affiliated with the the
Fellowship of Southern Writers, organized in 1989 under the
inspiration of the late Cleanth Brooks for the purpose of
encouraging and honoring excellence in southern letters.
Each piece in The Cry of an Occasion celebrates the distinctness
of southern experience, giving expression in story form to a
singular episode of mind, heart, or will. Varying from whimsical to
ominous to sidesplitting to melancholy, the stories share a regard
for the people who brush against us and in so doing shape us --
generations of family especially, neighbors, as well as those
occasional individuals who can mysteriously yet profoundly affect
our lives.
On a freezing December night, a woman returning home from a
first date with a man finds herself locked out of her apartment;
the pains he takes to help her surprises them both. A teenage girl
suffers the day of her grandmother's funeral attempting to be
adult, furious with the pessimism of her mother and wounded by the
absence of her father since she was three. A slave fleeing
Mississippi in 1862 draws on the wisdom of breaking horses passed
down from his grandfather to win assistancein his flight for
freedom. Fourteen years after his teenage son's death, a man
realizes his mourning is incomplete despite therapy, relocation,
and the outward signs of contentment. A pregnant woman has vivid
dreams -- of giving birth to a kitten, of forgetting her baby on
the hood of her car, and of concealing a joint in her bra -- as she
watches Boston's changing seasons and struggles with her torturous
enjoyment of smoking.
"Now where will it all end?" asks one character. "All this pain
and loving, mystery and loss. And it just goes on and on". The
occasion and expression of southern fiction are in hale and hardy
form, and reading this exemplary collection is pure pleasure.
There are many books about famous bands and rock stars out there,
but whatever happened to those musicians that did not become
famous? These are the experiences of drummer-singer George Garrett
and guitarist-singer Rick Lawton. They were on a crazy and
unpredictable U.S. road tour in 1978, but as they were buddies and
played in bands together in high school, their reminiscences go way
back. What started out as a simple e-mail memory exchange grew into
this book. If you have ever wondered what happened to all those
club bands and musicians you used to go out to see, listen, and
dance to (or even go out with) back in the 70s, read on. You might
get a clue from this book
In this, his third book of poetry, Garrett presents recent poems
that enhance a reputation already well established for charm of
language, a frank and perceptive approach to experience, strong
images, and a large understanding of life and feelings. The three
sections comprising the book are well differentiated, moving from
the casually actual to the neatly satirical to depth poems.
Originally published in 1961.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the
latest in digital technology to make available again books from our
distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These
editions are published unaltered from the original, and are
presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both
historical and cultural value.
Few if any are better endowed than George Garrett to comment on the
general and the particular, the long and the short, of southern
letters in our time. Garrett- a prolific and internationally
renowned author of fiction, poetry, drama, and biography as well as
a teacher, editor, critic, and frequent jurist for literary
competitions- has been immersed in the writers and literature of
his native region for almost a half century. Southern Excursions
contains more than fifty of the best essays, reviews, and other
short pieces of his career. For the connoisseur of good writing,
this book is a depository, a treasure, a veritable time capsule of
southern, literary, and American culture. Without sacrificing
reverence for modern masters such as Faulkner, O'Connor, and Welty,
Garrett has consistently embraced worthy new artists through the
years, deftly and judiciously drawing the line between critical
acclaim and popular success. Payton Davis, Shelby Foote, Walker
Percy, William HoVman, Madison Jones, Reynolds Price, Robert
Morgan, R. H. W. Dillard, Wendell Berry, Doris Betts, William
Goyen, Mary Lee Settle, Randall Kenan, David Huddle, Allan
Gurganus, Dorothy Allison- these are a few of the writers Garrett
has championed. If some names sound less familiar, Garrett, in
these pages, will inspire readers to swift investigation. The
author's charm, wit, and anecdotal style make reading Southern
Excursions a delight, and yet there's no mistaking his erudition.
Wise like a prophet, with a talent scout's enthusiasm, Garrett is
not afraid to tell unwelcome truths, covering topics that include
southern publishing houses and literary quarterlies, the alliance
between writers and academia, the state of criticism and theory,
and, most eloquently, the persistence of place, memory, and the
Civil War as themes in southern letters. Southern Excursions is a
book for the ages, stowing as it does the sage views of one as
learned, respected- and modest- in his time as George Garrett. ""My
strong suggestion [to readers],"" he states, ""is to plunge in and
fare forward. Experience the story before turning to or trusting
the opinions and judgments of others, myself included.
Although George Garrett is best known for his outstanding fiction,
he has also written a large body of superb poetry. This generous
compilation, which brings together the work of almost a
half-century and adds to it some forty-three new poems, splendidly
affirms Henry Taylor's assertion that ""[George Garrett's] poetry
is among the treasures of contemporary literature."" Garrett's
older poems are arranged in roughly chronological order, enabling
the reader to see how his work has changed even as it addresses his
unaltering central concerns. Through various styles and forms,
ranging from bawdy satires to quiet lyrics, Garrett remains an
unwavering moralist, one who confronts larger issues without
affectation or evasion. The new poems here cover fresh ground and
offer surprising discoveries, but their voice is unmistakably
Garrett's. Garrett's poems can be intensely personal, extremely
witty, evocative of real places, or beautiful love ballads. Yet,
for all of its diversity, Garrett's poetry has an extraordinary
unity of vision that is magnified in this remarkable collection of
his life's work.
The Sleeping Gypsy is an important collection of poems by an
American writer who was but twenty-nine when awarded the coveted
Prix de Rome in 1958. When George Garrett's first collected verse,
The Reverend Ghost and Other Poems, appeared in Scribner's Poets of
Today: IV, critics hailed the emergence of an authentic new talent
of great promise. Babette Deutsch, writing in the New York Herald
Tribune, said, "His poems are short, highly charged, and also, as
he intended, clear. They move rapidly, without waste, exhibiting a
lively skill and vigor in action.... His sensitive perceptivity
makes his thoughtful insights more memorable." Louise Bogan,
writing in the New Yorker, said, "It is good to come upon in
Garrett's work] an ordered brilliance and effects, long neglected,
that link us to the ancient tradition of English 'song.'"
Readers will find in The Sleeping Gypsy all of the qualities
that distinguished Garrett's earlier collection of verse--the
pointed, incisive writing, the abhorrence of "pretty" poetic words,
the harsh impact of language that is, at the same time, strangely
musical. Many will feel that, in this later work, these qualities
have been enhanced and that Garrett's advancing maturity indicates
strongly that his early promise will be richly fulfilled.
The fifteen stories of George Garrett's ""Empty Bed Blues"" (his
eighth book-length collection) are vintage Garrett - no two alike -
with each moving, one way and another, in new and daring
directions. His stories are deeply concerned with the old verities
of love and death and filled with the joys and woes of characters
who come to life and command our attention. Diversity is the key
word for Garrett's short fiction. He works in every known form and
invents a few himself. In ""A Story Goes with It,"" Garrett fondly
remembers an old friend while retelling a story the man once told
him. Most of it is probably not accurate, as Garrett is quick to
admit, but the mixture of fact with fiction makes for an
entertaining read. His stories turn like the sharp curves of a
mountain road, abruptly changing from a fond trip down memory lane
to a sleazy reporter's quest along the backroads for the ultimate
crime story in ""Pornographers."" He tops off his collection with
""A Short History of the Civil War,"" a series of poems written by
two participants: one a Confederate, the other a Yankee. In the
marriage of fact and fiction, of comedy and pathos, and the music
of many voices, the stories of ""Empty Bed Blues"" reconfirm the
judgment of novelist and story writer Richard Bausch, who said in
1998: ""There is no writer on the American scene with a more
versatile, more eclectic, or more restless talent than George
Garrett.
"Southern Fiction is alive and kicking and going off in all kinds
of directions as this old century stagers to an end." To prove
their audacious pronouncement, George Garrett and Paul Ruffin have
assembled thirty-one stories representing the best of recent
Southern fiction. These stories weave together themes that
underscore what being Southern is all about: the retelling of the
past, the uncertainty of the future, the haunting presence of
racial guilt, the inescapable influence of family--for better or
worse, the struggle for survival, and the tragedy and humor of
Southern life. Born of a Texas Review competition to honor
outstanding new writing, the collection snowballed as Garrett and
Ruffin realized Southern fiction of the 1990s merits a gathering
all its own. Contributors hail from nearly every Southern state;
their subjects span the world; their style fit no defined formulas;
their works both praise and parody the literary legacy of their
forebears. Some writers are well known while others are virtually
unknown. Unified by excellence as much as by region, these works
comprise the most representative and entertaining collection of
short Southern fiction to be published in decades.
This annual compendium includes original material covering a given
years literary highlights, including obituaries and tributes. The
Yearbook provides signed essays summarizing the year in poetry,
fiction, biography, drama and childrens books we well as scholarly
articles, interviews, biographies and critical studies covering
events, organizations, works, writers and the business of
literature. Volumes include lists of award and honors winners; a
necrology; a cumulative index and more.
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