Passing Through Meat Camp is an exploration of places of belonging and identity politics in Appalachia and the Deep South, regions characterized by both bucolic scenery and rampant poverty. The 33 poems contained in this collection thus evoke this distinction. As a Southern writer, Joshua Martin is heavily fascinated by the Southern landscape. He both loves and loathes the South, and its history of violence, instability, religion (and religious hypocrisy),...
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