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Southern Poets in Conversation

Southern Poets in Conversation Southern Poets in Conversation by Robert M. West Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets. By Ernest Suarez. With T. W. Stanford III and Amy Verner. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1999. 256 pp. $19.95. There have been several collections of interviews with con- temporary southern writers, some of them very fine: William J. Walsh’s Speak So I Shall Know Thee (1990) and Dannye Romine Powell’s Parting the Curtains (1994) come immediately to mind. But Southbound is, as far as I know, the first such collection to feature poets exclusively. For this alone Ernest Suarez deserves praise: if literary studies in general have come to mirror the marketplace’s devotion to prose fiction and memoir, this is certainly true for the study of southern literature in particular. There are plenty of southern poets writing poems at least as remarkable as those of their northeastern or western counterparts, yet receiving far less atten- tion even in their home region. Southbound offers us eleven poets dis- cussing their art and their identities as southern writers. Interviewed are James Dickey, Dave Smith, Charles Wright, Ellen Bryant Voigt, David Bottoms, T. R. Hummer, Yusef Komunyakaa, Betty Adcock, Rodney Jones, James Seay, and Kate Daniels, in that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Southern Poets in Conversation

The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 34 (2) – Jun 1, 2002

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2002 the Southern Literary Journal and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of English.
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1534-1461

Abstract

Southern Poets in Conversation by Robert M. West Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets. By Ernest Suarez. With T. W. Stanford III and Amy Verner. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1999. 256 pp. $19.95. There have been several collections of interviews with con- temporary southern writers, some of them very fine: William J. Walsh’s Speak So I Shall Know Thee (1990) and Dannye Romine Powell’s Parting the Curtains (1994) come immediately to mind. But Southbound is, as far as I know, the first such collection to feature poets exclusively. For this alone Ernest Suarez deserves praise: if literary studies in general have come to mirror the marketplace’s devotion to prose fiction and memoir, this is certainly true for the study of southern literature in particular. There are plenty of southern poets writing poems at least as remarkable as those of their northeastern or western counterparts, yet receiving far less atten- tion even in their home region. Southbound offers us eleven poets dis- cussing their art and their identities as southern writers. Interviewed are James Dickey, Dave Smith, Charles Wright, Ellen Bryant Voigt, David Bottoms, T. R. Hummer, Yusef Komunyakaa, Betty Adcock, Rodney Jones, James Seay, and Kate Daniels, in that

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Published: Jun 1, 2002

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