Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Spine slightly cocked, near fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in. Poetry.

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Exulting in the speech of his native Alabama, Rodney Jones's new poems combine satire and ode, formal lament and ribald joke. James Dickey praised this poet's early work as "one of our most poignant and inescapable renditions of the agony at the historical razor's edge." Now, in his sixth book, Jones extends his emotional and stylistic range. He writes of football and feminism, of DDT and family, of crows and sex, of ink and raccoons 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.

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 501893
Title: Elegy for the Southern Drawl
Author: JONES, Rodney
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0395956161
ISBN 13: 9780395956168
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1999
Keywords: Poetry, AdvanceCopy
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry;

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