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

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...of pine and jasmine, how wondrous it was the pent-up river washed to green their farms, the creeks swole with mountain dew to sprout the corn, herbage of poke and...

The Change

...when the fields were like waves on a green ocean, and turned away,    away from the change and corruption of big business on small farms of traditional agricultural people,...

Sweep

...that obsesses him more than football or weather and that cancer is far to prevalent in this green valley of herbicides and chemical factories. Now Mike, the younger brother, lifts...

Julius Hartman

..."The low green valley that borders Ponce de Leon creek has long been noted for its reposeful beauty. "Ponce de Leon spring bubbles up at its eastern extremity, and the...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...Tuscaloosa sleeps in the water sucks gore from his lungs strips the green crucifix roars the gumbo scream Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa Trane's Alabama a Creole agony blood slung through air...

I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees

...branches and watch the exhausted laborers from the Burgreen Construction Company sit down in the shade, unwrapping their ham and salami and popping open their thermoses. Apparently, they too are...

Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb

...the leading architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) to design the town. SOM integrated cutting-edge elements of suburban design including curvilinear streets, cul-de-sacs, neighborhood units, and a greenbelt.8On...