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We Find Each Other in the Darkness

Poems
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Description

The poems of We Find Each Other in the Darkness take inspiration from the Imagist tradition of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. These poems emphasize an unraveling of localized places, such as the urbanization of Jackson, the rural Mississippi Delta, and the ecologically fragile Gulf Coast, through surreal and magically real points of view. In some ways these new poems are Southern Magical Realism. They work with an awareness reminiscent of the nonfiction essays of Walter Benjamin's One-Way Street, and create dialectics of experiences about disparate peoples in far away and unfamiliar locations.

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Product Details

PublisherTexas Review Press
Publish DateJuly 23, 2020
Pages50
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781680032161
Dimensions8.3 X 5.1 X 0.2 inches | 0.1 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry, Poetry

About the Author

RICHARD BOADA is the author of two poetry collections: The Error of Nostalgia, nominated for the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award, and Archipelago Sinking. He is a graduate of the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. His poetry appears in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Urban Voices: 51 Poets / 51 Poems, Rhino, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry East, North American Review, and Third Coast, among others. Currently, he is Editor and Publications Coordinator of the Mississippi Legislature PEER Committee and teaches at Mississippi College.

Reviews

"In this guided tour of Mississippi's landscapes, Richard Boada's fine poems never forget how the land and its people are inseparable, and report the truth of the human news, that each day can be filled with love and hate, thrills and disappointments in equal measure. These poems are snapshots of a people and a land that I know and love, and this collection a grand tour of America's most misunderstood state, its burning fields and crumbling highways and city corners, all rendered with the compassion and care of a poet working at the height of his power."
--Steve Kistulentz, author of The Luckless Age and The Mating Calls of the Dead

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