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

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...pre-Civil War plantation sites. Map detailing the geography of St. Catherines Island and St. Catherines Sound. Map courtesy of Steve Bransford, Anthony Martin, and Michael Page. Screenshot courtesy of Southern...

#209, Long Meter

...our best spices flow abroad    To entertain our Saviour God;    And faith and love and joy appear,    And every grace be active here.   From Lloyd, Benjamin,...

Fort Scott newspapers

...the outgrowth of the purest and best qualities of human nature. This collection might well be compared to the Garden of Eden in its combination of excellences and like the...

Stones and Shadows

...the image in relief, old man with scythe, and the quotation: "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." Impossible, grand. The earth is beneath us. The...

Six Yellow Stanzas

...among these creamy freesia women - they all are. They let some men be dark, like the one they call Dark Gable, who could talk that talk the best. The...

Ellipsis

...the walls: Mildew, semen, camphor, Oft-handled bills, coin metal, Cornbread breath that whispers and swallows and breathes. One day, as in the best bodice-rippers, the house burned down to the...

Prayer of the Backhanded

...best beatings lack Intention, the mark of the beast. Bring back to life the son Who glories in the sin Of immediacy, calling it love. God, save the man whose...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...depending on a government's interest or willingness to police or prohibit.2The best examination of this concept I've found is in Eric Monkkonen's history of police, which stands to this day...