Restoration, Metanostalgia, and Critical Memory: Forms of Nostalgia in Contemporary Southern Poetry

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Cross Turner
Keyword(s):  
Southern Poetry

Contemporary Southern Poetry. An Anthology

1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Gilbert Allen ◽  
Guy Owen ◽  
Mary C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Southern Poetry

Southern Poetry: Antebellum to Contemporary

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Raymond
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
The South ◽  
Rural South ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Poets ◽  
Southern Poetry ◽  
History Of The South

Southern poetry embraces dichotomous elements: it contains poems lauding the Confederacy, and also poems deeply critical and mournful of the racist violence, oppression, and racist terrorism that characterize the region’s history. Yet a common thread runs through Southern poetry—attention to the land, the rural South as a character in its own right, and with that attention to the land a quality of haunting and being haunted by the history of the South: the violence of colonization, enslavement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow. Twentieth-century poet Etheridge Knight, born in Mississippi, lyrically describes the earth of Mississippi merging with the graves of his ancestors, calling him home to a place where, as a black man, he is not safe. Nineteenth-century poet Sidney Lanier, born in Georgia and, like Knight, a man who had experienced imprisonment, shapes in his poetry a mythical country where trees and rivers and indigenous crops become forces superseding the human; but Lanier, a soldier for the Confederacy, does not mention enslavement in his poetry. In Southern poetry, this blind spot—the white Southern poet who does not see or reflect upon the racist violence of enslavement, Jim Crow, lynching—is often submerged into a poetry melancholic and obsessed with unnamable violence and loss, even as African American poets of the South often name this loss in terms of personal memory. Myth—of the aristocratic, agrarian South—in white Southern poetry, and memory—of personal risk and suffering—in African American Southern poetry, can be understood together as a common pull to write the land, albeit from different perspectives.

On Southern Poetry prior to 1860. S. E. Bradshaw

1901 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
O. L. Trigss
Keyword(s):  
Southern Poetry

Power Lines: Contemporary Southern Poetry

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-531
Author(s):  
Daniel Cross Turner
Keyword(s):  
Power Lines ◽  
Southern Poetry

The Plain Style in Southern Poetry

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-124
Author(s):  
Nick Norwood
Keyword(s):  
Plain Style ◽  
Southern Poetry

scholarly journals On *Southern poetry prior to 1860

1900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Ernest Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Southern Poetry
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