Elegy for the Southern Drawl Hardcover - 1999
by Jones, Rodney
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- Title Elegy for the Southern Drawl
- Author Jones, Rodney
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; First Printing
- Condition Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York
- Date 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # 17432
- ISBN 9780395956168 / 0395956161
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.65 x 5.72 x 0.62 in (21.97 x 14.53 x 1.57 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Young men - Poetry, Southern States - Poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-43792
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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Summary
A bawdy, witty revelation by an award-winning poet who celebrates the soul of the South in jest and in elegy. Exulting in the drawl of his native Alabama, Rodney Jones's poems play out the life cycle of the young southern white male, from high school football games to first debauchery, from ignorance to self-understanding. Other poems speak of laying sewer pipe, of crows and sex, ink and raccoons, penises and perpetual motion machines. In many of these poems the southern drawl lives forever, riding on the tide of regional language, poking fun yet delighting in it. Jones dedicates other poems to poetry readings and English departments, to William Matthews, to Isaac Bashevis Singer, and to William Carlos Williams. His poems burst with wit, robust experience, and earthy intelligence. Awarded the AWP writing prize by Elizabeth Bishop and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Rodney Jones is one of the most original poets in America.