Bibliograph

Elegy for the southern drawl, Rodney Jones

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Elegy for the southern drawl, Rodney Jones

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Elegy for the southern drawl

Oclc number

40298330

Responsibility statement

Rodney Jones

Summary

Celebrating the essence of life in the South, a collection of poems chronicles the life cycle of a young Southern white male, from high school football to losing his virginity, from ignorant youth to self-awareness

Table Of Contents

The changing of the present. For Alexis -- Down time -- Resurrections -- The fruit house -- Owls -- The pine forests -- The package -- Variation on a sundial -- Refusing to baptize a son -- Not see again -- Central London time -- Holy ground -- Canonical. Crow time -- Canonical -- The limousine bringing Isaac Bashevis Singer to Carbondale -- The secret of William Matthews -- Plea for forgiveness -- In memory of Al Cohn, the humanities librarian -- Aubade -- The poetry reading -- The obsolescence of thou -- Elegy for the southern drawl -- Piece of the way. Ink -- Time on the zipper -- A puddle for the theory group -- The mind of the lead guitarist -- Raccoon time -- Piece of the way -- A coronary in Liposuction -- One music -- The perpetual motion machine -- Nihilist time -- Elegy for a bad example -- Advice -- The sorrow pageant. The assault on the fields -- Natural selection -- Sacrament for my penis -- In defense of ugliness -- The sorrow pageant -- Blessed assurance -- Doing laundry

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