New Delta Rising

Sol Bragg Smith

ISBN 10: 161703150X / ISBN 13: 9781617031502

Published by University Press of Mississippi/The Dreyfus Health Foundation/The Rogosin Institute, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Delta Rising
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi/The Dreyfus Health Foundation/The Rogosin Institute
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161703150X
• ISBN 13: 9781617031502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Mississippi Delta has been called “the most southern place on earth.” This fertile expanse of flat land sprawls along the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee, southward to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Culturally rich as well, the Delta is the land where the blues began.

New Delta Rising is an exploration of Mississippi Delta life and a celebration of the indefatigable Delta people who live there.

Award-winning photographer Magdalena Solé spent a year interviewing and photographing hundreds of residents in the Mississippi Delta. The deep connection she felt comes through in the compelling images in this book. Solé captures their personal dignity, resilience, and resourcefulness, along with the closeness of family and community she found among them.

The accompanying text gives voice to the people of the Delta, illuminating their strength and character and spirit―a spirit bound up in a deeply rooted sense of place and shown in their compassion for one another. In their stories the people of the Delta have much to offer to the rest of the United States.

Rick Bragg, the acclaimed author of All Over but the Shoutin', contributes to the volume a lyrical essay evoking the distinctive aura of the Mississippi Delta. He writes, “Myth and magic and legend swirl into the real world, and it can be hard to tell where one stops and the other begins.”

About the Authors

Magdalena Solé is an award-winning social documentary photographer known for her sensitive expressions of culture through color artistry. Her work has been shown internationally in over twenty exhibitions, including eighteen solo presentations. She worked as unit production manager for Man on Wire, which won an Academy Award in 2009. She is author of New Delta Rising and Cuba hasta siempre, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Rick Bragg is the author of best-selling books about the working people of the Deep South. His first book, All Over but the Shoutin', won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993, Bragg has won the Harper Lee Award and numerous other awards. He is currently the Clarence Carson Professor of Writing at the University of Alabama.

Barry H. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., serves as director of the Dreyfus Foundation and president and CEO of The Regosin Institute. He is also professor of clinical surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Tom Lassiter is a writer, editor, photographer, and video producer in Greensboro, North Carolina. A former newspaper feature writer and editor, he is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.