Download or read book Mississippi Writers written by Dorothy Abbott and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1991 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An omnibus of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama written by Mississippi authors
Download or read book Mississippi Writers written by Dorothy Abbott and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South
Download or read book Mississippi Writers Poetry written by Dorothy Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of a multivolume set is a collection of stories and parts of novels by twentieth-century Mississippi writers about growing up in the South. Volume II (1986) contains nonfiction on the same subjects and volume III (1987), poetry. A monumental anthology in four volumes collecting fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, & drama written by authors from Mississippi, a state that has been called the cradle of storytellers. In a five-year project sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, Abbott has made selections from the works of Faulkner, Welty, Williams, Percy, & Wright along with stories, essays, poems, & plays both by eminently known&by emerging writers from Mississippi. Each selection expresses the theme of Mississippi youth & childhood or its relevance to the life of the writer.
Download or read book Mississippi Writers written by Dorothy Abbott and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1985 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South
Download or read book Mississippi Poets written by Catharine Savage Brosman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi has produced outstanding writers in numbers far out of proportion to its population. Their contributions to American literature, including poetry, rank as enormous. Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide showcases forty-seven poets associated with the state and assesses their work with the aim of appreciating it and its place in today’s culture. In Mississippi, the importance of poetry can no longer be doubted. It partakes, as Faulkner wrote, of the broad aim of all literature: “to uplift man’s heart.” In Mississippi Poets, author Catharine Savage Brosman introduces readers to the poets themselves, stressing their versatility and diversity. She describes their subject matter and forms, their books, and particularly representative or striking poems. Of broad interest and easy to consult, this book is both a source of information and a showcase. It highlights the organic connection between poetry by Mississippians and the indigenous music genres of the region, blues and jazz. No other state has produced such abundant and impressive poetry connected to these essential American forms. Brosman profiles and assesses poets from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Grounds for selection include connections between the poets and the state; the excellence and abundance of their work; its critical reception; and both local and national standing. Natives of Mississippi and others who have resided here draw equal consideration. As C. Liegh McInnis observed, “You do not have to be born in Mississippi to be a Mississippi writer. . . . If what happens in Mississippi has an immediate and definite effect on your work, you are a Mississippi writer.”
Download or read book Mississippi Writers written by Dorothy Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Place Like Mississippi written by W. Ralph Eubanks and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir In A Place Like Mississippi,award-winning author and Mississippi native W. Ralph Eubanks treats us to a literary tour of the evocative landscapes that have inspired writers in every era. From Faulkner to Wright, Welty to Trethewey, Mississippi has been both a backdrop and a central character in some of the most compelling prose and poetry of modern literature. The journey unfolds on a winding path, touching the muddy Delta, the rolling Hill Country, down to the Gulf Coast, and all points between. In every corner of the state lie the settings that informed hundreds of iconic works. Immersing us in these spaces, Eubanks helps us understand that Mississippi is not only a state but a state of mind. Or as Faulkner is said to have observed, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”
Download or read book Pinebelt Poetry and Prose written by Hattiesburg Chapter of the Mississippi Writers Guild and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pieces of literary and photography work found in this first publication of the members and friends of the Hattiesburg Chapter of the Mississippi Writers Guild are just as eclectic as the individual contributors. From short stories and prose, to flash fiction and poetry, the love of composing the written word binds this book and the group together. Members of the group are writers of all types, including published poets, novelists, short story authors, and dabblers. The chapter meets monthly and seeks to encourage and empower attendees in the endeavors of writing, editing and publishing their works.
Download or read book A Literary History of Mississippi written by Lorie Watkins and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions by Ted Atkinson, Robert Bray, Patsy J. Daniels, David A. Davis, Taylor Hagood, Lisa Hinrichsen, Suzanne Marrs, Greg O'Brien, Ted Ownby, Ed Piacentino, Claude Pruitt, Thomas J. Richardson, Donald M. Shaffer, Theresa M. Towner, Terrence T. Tucker, Daniel Cross Turner, Lorie Watkins, and Ellen Weinauer Mississippi is a study in contradictions. One of the richest states when the Civil War began, it emerged as possibly the poorest and remains so today. Geographically diverse, the state encompasses ten distinct landform regions. As people traverse these, they discover varying accents and divergent outlooks. They find pockets of inexhaustible wealth within widespread, grinding poverty. Yet the most illiterate, disadvantaged state has produced arguably the nation's richest literary legacy. Why Mississippi? What does it mean to write in a state of such extremes? To write of racial and economic relations so contradictory and fraught as to defy any logic? Willie Morris often quoted William Faulkner as saying, "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi." What Faulkner (or more likely Morris) posits is that Mississippi is not separate from the world. The country's fascination with Mississippi persists because the place embodies the very conflicts that plague the nation. This volume examines indigenous literature, Southwest humor, slave narratives, and the literature of the Civil War. Essays on modern and contemporary writers and the state's changing role in southern studies look at more recent literary trends, while essays on key individual authors offer more information on luminaries including Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, and Margaret Walker. Finally, essays on autobiography, poetry, drama, and history span the creative breadth of Mississippi's literature. Written by literary scholars closely connected to the state, the volume offers a history suitable for all readers interested in learning more about Mississippi's great literary tradition.
Download or read book Mississippi Writers Talking Interviews with Walker Percy Ellen Douglas Willie Morris Margaret Walker Alexander James Whitehead Turner Cassity written by John Griffin Jones and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Katrina written by Natasha Trethewey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Trethewey’s attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the Virginia Quarterly Review. For Beyond Katrina, Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been made and the challenges that still exist.
Download or read book Notes on Mississippi Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi Writers Fiction written by Dorothy Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of a multivolume set is a collection of stories and parts of novels by twentieth-century Mississippi writers about growing up in the South. Volume II (1986) contains nonfiction on the same subjects and volume III (1987), poetry. A monumental anthology in four volumes collecting fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, & drama written by authors from Mississippi, a state that has been called the cradle of storytellers. In a five-year project sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, Abbott has made selections from the works of Faulkner, Welty, Williams, Percy, & Wright along with stories, essays, poems, & plays both by eminently known & by emerging writers from Mississippi. Each selection expresses the theme of Mississippi youth & childhood or its relevance to the life of the writer.
Download or read book Down to the Dark River written by Philip C. Kolin and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tornado is the World written by Catherine Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest offering by Catherine Pierce is a whirlwind of poetic brilliance!
Download or read book Yonder Breaks the Morning written by Laurie Parker and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi Writers Drama written by Dorothy Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of a multivolume set is a collection of stories and parts of novels by twentieth-century Mississippi writers about growing up in the South. Volume II (1986) contains nonfiction on the same subjects and volume III (1987), poetry. A monumental anthology in four volumes collecting fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, & drama written by authors from Mississippi, a state that has been called the cradle of storytellers. In a five-year project sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, Abbott has made selections from the works of Faulkner, Welty, Williams, Percy, & Wright along with stories, essays, poems, & plays both by eminently known & by emerging writers from Mississippi. Each selection expresses the theme of Mississippi youth & childhood or its relevance to the life of the writer.
