Bobby C. Rogers 
Social History [EPUB ebook] 
Poems

Support

Bobby C. Rogers’s second collection, Social History, listens hard to the voices of American characters and celebrates the gestures of ordinary life. The long lines of his narrative poems trace the undulations of southern speech, and his careful eye for detail reflects the influence of generations of storytellers, from authors like Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty to Rogers’s own distant family members, living in ‘decrepit houses where the floors sagged and the front rooms reeked/of snuff, bitter as the smell off a pile of clods beside an open grave, the scent of time that hadn’t succeeded in passing.’
In his beguiling evocations of the past, Rogers looks back with affection to the rhythms and rituals of growing up in small-town Tennessee. While his poems speak of a living connection to community and to the earth, they also acknowledge the growing need to question what we have been taught and to break free and make our own way in this world. Graceful and plainspoken, the poems of Social History bear witness to ways of living that, though past, are never truly lost.

€9.99
payment methods

About the author

Bobby C. Rogers is professor of English and writer-in-residence at Union University. His first book, Paper Anniversary, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. He lives in Memphis with his wife, son, and daughter.

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 70 ● ISBN 9780807162057 ● File size 2.1 MB ● Publisher LSU Press ● City Baton Rouge ● Country US ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5673316 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

113,838 Ebooks in this category