Elegy for the Southern Drawl
by Jones, Rodney
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395956161
- ISBN 13
- 9780395956168
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Synopsis
Exulting in the speech of his native Alabama, Rodney Jones's new poems combine satire and ode, formal lament and ribald joke. James Dickey praised this poet's early work as "one of our most poignant and inescapable renditions of the agony at the historical razor's edge." Now, in his sixth book, Jones extends his emotional and stylistic range. He writes of football and feminism, of DDT and family, of crows and sex, of ink and raccoons and perpetual-motion machines. In many of these poems the southern drawl lives forever, riding on the tide of regional language, poking fun yet delighting in it.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Shelf (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012016
- Title
- Elegy for the Southern Drawl
- Author
- Jones, Rodney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395956161
- ISBN 13
- 9780395956168
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- POEMS POETRY POETIC WORKS
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