Copperhead by Rachel Richardson
These sinewy, sensuous poems lead down dusty Louisiana backroads, where anything might be lurking: family secrets, rusted relics, a viper. In Copperhead, her debut collection, Rachel Richardson pays homage to the folklore and myth of an Old South that is rapidly disappearing. Riffing from Leadbelly to road signs to the Lucky Lady Lounge, from Britney Spears to broken levees to the first white woman executed in the state, Richardson weaves a rich and conflicted portrait of a place continually haunted by its past. These are poems-as-documentary, an accounting of a region's history and future--politically charged, environmentally reverent, and always shot through with song.
RACHEL RICHARDSON has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. Her first book, Copperhead, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and her poetry and prose have appeared in Guernica, New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, the Poetry Foundation website, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A contributing editor at Memorious, she lives with her family in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780887485367 |
| ISBN 10 | 0887485367 |
| Title | Copperhead |
| Author | Rachel Richardson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carnegie-Mellon University Press |
| Year published | 2011-03-19 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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