Working the Dirt
An Anthology of Southern Poets
Title Details
Pages: 208
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 05/01/2003
ISBN: 9-781-5883-8131-6
List Price: $20.00
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NewSouth BooksRelated Subjects
Working the Dirt
An Anthology of Southern Poets
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Finalist for the SIBA Book Award
A loamy volume of verse thematically inspired, Working the Dirt celebrates Southerners' connections to the land. The selected poems share themes of gardening, farming, and the rich Southern soil. The approximately one hundred poets, known and lesser-known, living and dead, include: Fred Chappell, Walter McDonald, A. R. Ammons, Robert Morgan, Wendell Berry, Henry Taylor, Tom Dent, Jesse Stuart, Jim Wayne Miller, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Marion Montgomery, James Whitehead, C. D. Wright, George Scarbrough, Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, Thad Stem, Jr., William Sprunt, Donald Justice, Thomas Rabbitt, James Dickey, Rick Lott, John Allison, Edwin Godsey, Richard Jackson, Nikki Giovanni, Alvin Aubert, Margaret Walker, Emily Hiestand, Robert Gibbons, John Stone, Coppie Green, Bonnie Roberts, Coleman Barks, Anne George, Edward Eaton, Margaret Gibson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jack Butler, R. H. W. Dillard, Jane Gentry, Rodney Jones, Dannye Romine, Miller Williams, George Garrett, Sandra Agricola, Patricia Hooper, Gerald Berrax, Gibbons Ruark, Catherine Savage Brosman, Loretta Cobb, and Pattiann Rogers.
—David C. Berry Jr.
—Ted Kooser, author of Local Wonders; Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
—Joe Survant
—David Ray
—David Rigsbee
—Sharon Lovejoy, author of Trowel and Error, contributing editor to Country Living Gardner, and syndicated LifeBeat columnist for the New York Times
Short-listed
SIBA Book Awards, Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
Commended
Alabama Poet Laureate, Alabama Writers' Conclave