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Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O'Connor

Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O'Connor

O'Donnell, Angela Alaimo

Paperback

Series: Paraclete Poetry

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Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1640603530
ISBN13: 9781640603530
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Published: Apr 1 2020
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O'Connor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Flannery O'Connor. In these poems, poet and scholar Angela Alaimo O'Donnell imagines the rich interior life Flannery lived during the last fourteen years of her life in rural Georgia on her family's farm named Andalusia. Each poem begins with an epigraph taken from O'Connor's essays, stories, or letters; the poet then plumbs Flannery's thoughts and the poignant circumstances behind them, welcoming the reader into O'Connor's private world. Together the poems tell the story of a brilliant young woman who enjoyed a bright and promising childhood, was struck with lupus just as her writing career hit its stride, and was forced to return home and live out her days in exile, far from the literary world she loved. By turns tragic and comic, the poems in Andalusian Hours explore Flannery's loves and losses, her complex relationship with her mother, her battle with her illness and disability, and her passion for her writing. The poems mark time in keeping with the liturgical hours O'Connor herself honored in her prayer life and in her quasi-monastic devotion to her vocation and to the home she learned to love, Andalusia.

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