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Live from the Homesick Jamboree

Live from the Homesick Jamboree

Blevins, Adrian

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0819574619
ISBN13: 9780819574619
Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
Published: Sep 30 2013
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.03
Language: English

Molten and musical poetry from an acclaimed Southern writer

Live from the Homesick Jamboree is a brave, brash, funny, and tragic hue and cry on growing up female during the 1970s, when everything was always so awash that the speaker finds herself adrift among adults who act like children. The book moves from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and the larger world, with the headlong perceptiveness and brio characteristic of Adrian Blevins's work. This poetry is plainspoken and streetwise, brutal and beautiful, provocative and self-incriminating, with much musicality and a corrosive bravura, brilliantly complicated by bursts of vernacular language and flashes of compassion. Whether listening to Emmylou Harris while thinking she should be memorizing Tolstoy, reflecting on her full-to-bursting motherliness, aging body, the tensions and lurchings of a relationship, or the cockamamie lovingness of it all, the language flies fast and furious. As the poet Tony Hoagland wrote of Blevins's previous book, The Brass Girl Brouhaha, this is the dirty, trash-talking, highly edified real thang.

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