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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

A Mess of Poke

...not quite Euell Gibbons and Stalking the Wild Asparagus, either. Poke sallet greens were once commercially canned and marketed. The Allen Canning Company of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, paid gatherers by...

Whiskey and Geography

...Wood, Jr., From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1998), 33. Corn...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993) and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000). Forthcoming books include A...

The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron

...poet makes sounds like prayer, but the heron is merely annoyed, stepping into the air and pulling with broad wings. The poet carefully records a sacred text, but the heron...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...Evans's American Photographs as well as Henri Cartier-Bresson's book The Decisive Moment in 1959, two years after he got his first camera. In the images now on exhibit at the...

Single Centers of Creation?

...Ridge Spring Salamander Eurycea wilderae* Blue Ridge Two-lined Salamander Eurycea cf. quadridigitata* "Carolina Dwarf Sal." Desmognathus carolinensis Carolina Mountain Dusky Salamander Gyrinophilus porphyriticus dunni* Carolina Spring Salamander Eurycea lucifuga Cave...

#598, Common Meter

Sung to tune of Cleansing Fountain in B.F. White Sacred Harp Cooper Revision (382)   1) There is a house not made with hands    Eternal and on high:   ...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...that she calls "l'homme-plante" (human-plant), an agency that resists forces of slavery and colonial discourse by its vegetative and receptive attitude.3Suzanne Césaire, The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941–1945), trans....