Lore / Davis McCombs.

By:

McCombs, Davis, 1969- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetryPublisher: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (xi, 64 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781607814825
160781482X

Uniform titles:

Poems. Selections

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

811/.54 23

LOC classification:

PS3563.C34348 A6 2016eb

Other classification:

POE000000

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Partial contents:

First hard freeze -- A family story -- Wind in the Ozarks -- Dumpster honey? -- In his own country -- Freshwater drum -- Gray fox, a resolution of sorrow -- The Widder Mercer -- Of thorns -- Trundle.

Summary: "Drawn from the rich folk traditions of his native Mammoth Cave region in Kentucky as well as the folklore of his adopted Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the poems in Davis McCombs's third collection exist along the fraught lines where nature and agriculture collide or in those charged moments where modernity intrudes on an archaic world. These poems celebrate out-of-the-way places, the lore of plants, wild animals and their unknowable lives, and nearly forgotten ways of being and talking and doing. Rendered in a language of great lexical juxtapositions, here are days of soil and labor, nights lit only by firelight, and the beings, possibly not of this world, lured like moths to its flames. McCombs, always a poet of place and of rootedness, writes poems teetering between two locales, one familiar but achingly distant, one bewildering but alluringly present"-- Provided by publisher.

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"Drawn from the rich folk traditions of his native Mammoth Cave region in Kentucky as well as the folklore of his adopted Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the poems in Davis McCombs's third collection exist along the fraught lines where nature and agriculture collide or in those charged moments where modernity intrudes on an archaic world. These poems celebrate out-of-the-way places, the lore of plants, wild animals and their unknowable lives, and nearly forgotten ways of being and talking and doing. Rendered in a language of great lexical juxtapositions, here are days of soil and labor, nights lit only by firelight, and the beings, possibly not of this world, lured like moths to its flames. McCombs, always a poet of place and of rootedness, writes poems teetering between two locales, one familiar but achingly distant, one bewildering but alluringly present"-- Provided by publisher.

First hard freeze -- A family story -- Wind in the Ozarks -- Dumpster honey? -- In his own country -- Freshwater drum -- Gray fox, a resolution of sorrow -- The Widder Mercer -- Of thorns -- Trundle.

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