Dismal Rock

Name: Dismal Rock
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ISBN: 9781932195484

ISBN-10: 1932195483

ISBN-13: 9781932195484

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Authors: Davis McCombs

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The award-winning poet Davis McCombs revisits the landscape of his youth on the tobacco farms of Kentucky in this insightful collection of verse. Initially chronicling events in local and family history, the poems in this book soon widen in scope until they include subjects as diverse as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Elgin Marbles, John Keats, Bob Marley, fatherhood, and fishing. The author's lens is kaleidoscopic, and yet his poems coalesce around important themes that never lose sight of the specific and the personal. Several poems in this volume explore the grief McCombs feels over the loss of local culture as it resonates within the broader context of ecological destruction, imbuing the…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 72
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Stripping Room


Gnomon


Lexicon


Nineveh


Nightshade


Tobacco Culture


Liming the Patch


Bat Gaddie and the Centennial Exposition


Transplants


Smoke


Hobart


Nicotiana


Drought


Rain Dog


The Tobacco Economy


The Sharecroppers


Rossetti in 1869


Fishing at Night


Water Tank Cosmogony


Old Munford Inn


The Mist Netters


Black and Yellow Argiope


Honeysuckle


Bob Marley


What Floyd Said


Local Color


Noodling


Salts Cave Revisited


Home


Fossil Fuel


Lique Log Eclogue


Spider Crystal Descent


The Elgin Marbles


A Strange Forbearance


The Mimic Birds


Northtown Well


White Space


Place Names


The Candle


Self-Admonition at Summer Seat


The Last Wolf in Edmonson County


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