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Descent

Name: Descent
Brand: Louisiana State University Press
SKU: 9780807147504
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ISBN: 9780807147504

Contributor(s): Byer, Kathryn Stripling Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780807147504
Publisher	Louisiana State University Press
Publication date	February 2013
Language	English
MRP	£19.95 GBP
Page count	72
Item weight	26 g

Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often "it's safer to stay blind."
Beginning with "Morning Train," a response to Georgia blues musician Precious Bryant, Byer sings her way through a search for identity, recalling the hardscrabble lives of her family in the sequence "Drought Days," and facing her inheritance as a white southern woman growing up amid racial division and violence. The poet encounters her own naive complicity in southern racism and challenges the narrative of her homeland, the "Gone with the Wind" mythology that still haunts the region.
Ultimately, Descent creates a fragile reconciliation between past and present, calling over and over again to celebrate being, as in the book's closing manifesto, "Here. Where I am."

Descent

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Byer, Kathryn Stripling Author

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