Blue yodel
Winner of the 2014 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award presented in the United States. Ansel Elkins's poetry collection, Blue Yodel, is the 109th volume to be so honored. Esteemed poet and competition judge Carl Phillips praises Elkins for her "arresting use of persona," calling her poems "razor-edged in their intelligence, Sout…
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- Full title :Blue yodel / Ansel Elkins ; foreword by Carl Phillips.
Summary
Winner of the 2014 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award presented in the United States. Ansel Elkins's poetry collection, Blue Yodel, is the 109th volume to be so honored. Esteemed poet and competition judge Carl Phillips praises Elkins for her "arresting use of persona," calling her poems "razor-edged in their intelligence, Southern Gothic in their sensibility." In her imaginative and haunting debut collection, Elkins introduces readers to a multitude of characters whose "otherness" has condemned them to live on the margins of society. She weaves blues, ballads, folklore, and storytelling into an intricate tapestry that depicts the violence, poverty, and loneliness of the Deep South, as well as the compassion, generosity, and hope that brings light to people in their darkest times. The blue yodel heard throughout this diverse compilation is a raw, primal, deeply felt expression of the human experience, calling on us to reach out to the isolated and disenfranchised and to find the humanity in every person
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- Publication Date:2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:New Haven
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780300213775, 0300213778
- oclc:ocn904281198
- LC Classification:PS3605.L417
- Dewey Decimal:811/.6
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Blues for the Death of the Sun; Goat Man; Mississippi Pastoral; The River's Wife; The Girl with Antlers; Adventures of the Double- Headed Girl; Autobiography of Eve; Winter Burial; Coffin Bone; Devil's Rope; Baby Doll; Tennessee Williams on Art and Sex; Real Housewives; Monogamy; The Lighthouse Keeper; Tornado; Aiming a Shotgun at the Sky; Hour of the Wolf; Reverse: A Lynching; Crying Wolf; Mississippi Delta: Glass in the Field; War Mask; Thou Shalt Not; The Call of the Wild; Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory; Going to the Movies Alone.
On Leaving the Boy in the BattlefieldGhost at My Door; Hunter's Moon; Long Hungry Road; Sailmaker's Palm; Acknowledgments.
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