Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South

by Daniel Cross Turner

"Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. "Southern Crossings" crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea--or ideas, many and contrary--of "Southernness" to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner's close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572338563
• ISBN13: 9781572338562
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"