Working the Dirt

An Anthology of Southern Poets
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-58838-131-6
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 212 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

Finalist for the SIBA Book Award

A loamy volume of verse thematically inspired, Working the Dirt celebrates Southerners' connections to the land. The selected poems share themes of gardening, farming, and the rich Southern soil. The approximately one hundred poets, known and lesser-known, living and dead, include: Fred Chappell, Walter McDonald, A. R. Ammons, Robert Morgan, Wendell Berry, Henry Taylor, Tom Dent, Jesse Stuart, Jim Wayne Miller, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Marion Montgomery, James Whitehead, C. D. Wright, George Scarbrough, Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, Thad Stem, Jr., William Sprunt, Donald Justice, Thomas Rabbitt, James Dickey, Rick Lott, John Allison, Edwin Godsey, Richard Jackson, Nikki Giovanni, Alvin Aubert, Margaret Walker, Emily Hiestand, Robert Gibbons, John Stone, Coppie Green, Bonnie Roberts, Coleman Barks, Anne George, Edward Eaton, Margaret Gibson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jack Butler, R. H. W. Dillard, Jane Gentry, Rodney Jones, Dannye Romine, Miller Williams, George Garrett, Sandra Agricola, Patricia Hooper, Gerald Berrax, Gibbons Ruark, Catherine Savage Brosman, Loretta Cobb, and Pattiann Rogers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horne, Jennifer

Über Autor(innen)

JENNIFER HORNE is a poet and freelance writer who grew up in Arkansas and has lived in Alabama since 1986. She received an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama and has been a university English teacher, a poetry teacher in elementary schools, and a journal, magazine, and book editor. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in journals across the Southeast, including Carolina Quarterly and the Birmingham Poetry Review. She gardens on Canyon Lake, outside Tuscaloosa, Alabama.