**Not a review. The Dew isn't reviewing this
book, but knows there will be readers interested in it so I'm sharing
regardless! There are poems in here dating back 200 years. Poetry and history lovers will find a fine combination in this book**
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Poems of the American South
(Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Hardcover
– August 5, 2014
This one-of-a-kind collection of poems about the American South ranges over four centuries of its dramatic history.
The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns
to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian
movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and
historically vibrant. No other region of the United States has been as
mythologized as the South, nor contained as many fascinating, beguiling,
and sometimes infuriating contradictions. Poems of the American South includes
poems both by Southerners and by famous observers of the South who
hailed from elsewhere. These range from Herman Melville, Walt Whitman,
Edgar Allan Poe, and Francis Scott Key through Langston Hughes, Robert
Penn Warren, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, and Donald
Justice, and include a host of living poets as well: Wendell Berry,
Rita Dove, Sandra Cisneros, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, C. D.
Wright, Natasha Trethewey, and many more. Organized thematically, the
anthology places poems from past centuries in fruitful dialogue with a
diverse array of modern voices who are redefining the South with a verve
that is reinvigorating American poetry as a whole.
