These sinewy, sensuous poems lead down dusty Louisiana backroads, where anything might be lurking: family secrets, rusted relics, a viper. In Copperhead, her debut collection, Rachel Richardson pays homage to the folklore and myth of an Old South that is rapidly disappearing. Riffing from Leadbelly to road signs to the Lucky Lady Lounge, from Britney Spears to broken levees to the first white woman executed in the state, Richardson weaves a rich and conflicted portrait of a place continually haunted by its past. These are poems-as-documentary, an accounting of a region's history and future?politically charged, environmentally reverent, and always shot through with song.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Carnegie-Mellon University Press
ISBN-13
9780887485367
eBay Product ID (ePID)
179988617
Product Key Features
Book Title
Copperhead
Author
Rachel Richardson
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
88 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
8mm
Item Width
5mm
Item Weight
660g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Rachel Richardson
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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