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...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...mine I viewéd all around me, I found I was quite alone And me a poor stranger and a long way from home My true love she won't have me...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...split in half when Hurricane Camille hit, shows us casemates, cannons, the store that sells souvenirs, tokens of history long buried. The Daughters of the Confederacy has placed a plaque...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...foot on is no longer there and she is being shoved downstream and she does not panic because she is a good swimmer and has passed all of her Red...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...of our grandmothers who are pierced, and probably do not want to hear about Thomas Hardy, who, if I remember, has been dead longer than they have been alive, And...
Race
...on behalf of the race. The poet imagines Great-Uncle Paul in cool, sagey groves counting rings in redwood trunks, imagines pencil markings in a ledger book, classifications, imagines a sidelong...
Darkly
...— how'd they get there, Edwards in their hands, along the roads so many others took to church or to the movies or home along the same white lines? To...
Anniversary
...water of our bodies, the water in our lungs, which knows these waves, however long, however low. So we come again, each of us a wake returning to comfort the...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...the South "has secured such a hold on the American mind that it is a postulate, to which the facts of American society must be bent, and no longer a...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...cities. Understanding white middle-class practices of exclusion is essential to understanding residential segregation and urban poverty. Moreover, Behind the White Picket Fence features a diversity of voices. Mayorga-Gallo interviewed long-time residents and...