
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
Publisher | Texas Review Press |
Publish Date | July 23, 2020 |
Pages | 50 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781680032161 |
Dimensions | 8.3 X 5.1 X 0.2 inches | 0.1 pounds |
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.
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