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    612-822-4611

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Descent

Descent

Byer, Kathryn Stripling

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0807147508
ISBN13: 9780807147504
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Nov 5 2012
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
Awards: Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, SIBA Book Award

Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often it's safer to stay blind.
Beginning with Morning Train, a response to Georgia blues musician Precious Bryant, Byer sings her way through a search for identity, recalling the hardscrabble lives of her family in the sequence Drought Days, and facing her inheritance as a white southern woman growing up amid racial division and violence. The poet encounters her own naive complicity in southern racism and challenges the narrative of her homeland, the Gone with the Wind mythology that still haunts the region.

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