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A bawdy, witty revelation by an award-winning poet who celebrates the soul of the South in jest and in elegy. Exulting in the drawl of his native Alabama, Rodney Jones's poems play out the life cycle of the young southern white male, from high school football games to first debauchery, from ignorance to self-understanding. Other poems speak of laying sewer pipe, of crows and sex, ink and raccoons, penises 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. Jones dedicates other poems to poetry readings and English departments, to William Matthews, to Isaac Bashevis Singer, and to William Carlos Williams. His poems burst with wit, robust experience, and earthy intelligence. Awarded the AWP writing prize by Elizabeth Bishop and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Rodney Jones is one of the most original poets in America.
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- Title Elegy for the Southern Drawl
- Author Rodney Jones
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date 1999-03-29
- ISBN 9780395956168 / 0395956161
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.65 x 5.72 x 0.62 in (21.97 x 14.53 x 1.57 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Young men - Poetry, Southern States - Poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-43792
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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Sometimes in one summer, one would hear, In one family, four or five distinct accents: Low-country mushmouth; mountain twang
The almost r-less river talk of merchant planters Droned out and of a lazy kinship to the sleek Ambidextrous blackspeak of their former slaves
And the hated northun brogue, smuggled Back from Dee-troit to parlay credit on a half Pound of bologna and a box of Velveeta cheese.
Copyright © 1999 by Rodney Jones
The almost r-less river talk of merchant planters Droned out and of a lazy kinship to the sleek Ambidextrous blackspeak of their former slaves
And the hated northun brogue, smuggled Back from Dee-troit to parlay credit on a half Pound of bologna and a box of Velveeta cheese.
Copyright © 1999 by Rodney Jones
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"Rodney Jones, in my view, is one of the two or, at most, three best poets of his generation. He is a true poet of his own culture. He is brilliant, wise, deeply sane, incredibly knowledgeable about the craft, tender, moving, honest, and--pure. I love reading him. He gives me hope for poetry." -- Gerald Stern, Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, 1998
"A brand-new, world-class poet." National Book Critics Circle
"A brand-new, world-class poet." National Book Critics Circle
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