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… I A literary prognosis of the United States reveals, I believe, something like the following. The cycle of … be remarked that although a great deal of promising work is coming from the pens of younger southern writers—and by … the southern author without energy to write, without an audience to listen to him, and without anything significant to …

… a billboard at the corner where blues legend Robert Johnson died, reportedly from poison, in one of Greenwood’s juke … is a far more dubious affair.) A Mississippi Blues Commission marker indicates Baptist Town is “known for its … But serving as a waiter in Jim Crow Mississippi also required daily humiliations for black waitstaff meant …

… . St. Francis        Death is my idiot brother, who comes babbling something I don’t yet        understand … in their books. The pianist played Satie’s Gymnopédie while sirens         careened past the church. Tom, you … cottage,        my own brother yanks me by the hand and points to the forty-foot silver birches        uprooted and …

… Union men who charged Cold Harbor’s trench and left their bodies so gored with shot there was nothing left to die; their first steps fall on land, the next in light. …

… was a long series of severe mental breakdowns astonishingly combined with the creation of the greatest American poetry … admired Lowell’s poetic use of personal history in Life Studies (1959): “All you have to do is put down the names! The … Sylvia Plath (who described her experience in The Bell Jar) also endured this ghastly process, which produces …