Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth: Volume III: Poetry (Center for the Study of Southern Culture Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878052356 ISBN 13: 9780878052356

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 1988

Synopsis

Poetry is celebrated in this third volume of a monumental anthology in four volumes collecting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and 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 made selections from the works of Faulkner, Welty, Williams, Percy, and Wright along with stories, essays, poems, and plays both by eminently known and emerging writers from Mississippi. Each selection expresses the theme of Mississippi youth and childhood or its relevance to the life of the writer.

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Poetry recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South

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A monumental anthology in four volumes collecting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and 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 made selections from the works of Faulkner, Welty, Williams, Percy, and Wright along with stories, essays, poems, and plays both by eminently known and by emerging writers from Mississippi. Each selection expresses the theme of Mississippi youth and childhood or its relevance to the life of the writer. Volume III: Poetry

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0878052356
• ISBN 13: 9780878052356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 462
• Editor: Abbott Dorothy