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A collection of verses celebrates a road trip through the rural South
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About the Author
C.D. Wright, a Professor of English at Brown University, is the author of ten books of poetry, as well as several collaborative works with photographer Deborah Luster, most recently One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. She has earned fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations, and is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. She lives in Rhode Island.
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Who are the Veals of Deepstep? The reader of Wright's ninth book of poetry (e.g., Tremble, Ecco, 1996) many never really know, but they are one of the bright verbal flashes in this word map of the American South. This book-length poem, punctuated by snippets of song lyrics, literary puns, and local color, moves by association of sound and image through parts of Georgia and South Carolina, focusing on towns that are probably too small for most maps: "West of Rome is Poetry. Poetry, Georgia. Wonder who lives/ there." While Wright drops tantalizing hints of her Arkansas upbringing, there is not much to relate it to the poem's cultural place-markers: the spot where Michael Jordan's father was murdered, an unidentified college that gives her the creeps. Wright is intelligent and witty and seems to be moving in a poetic direction she believes in, but for some readers special effects may not be an adequate substitute for linear plot and effect. For sophisticated collections.?Ellen Kaufman, Dewey Ballantine Law Lib., New York
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