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Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. Southern Crossings crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea or ideas, many and contrary of Southernness to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner s close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm s central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. Through his focus on varied yet interwoven forms of cultural...

Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also appears in symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms, including the social death endured by enslaved people, the Cult of the Lost Cause that resurrected the fallen heroes of the Confederacy as secular saints, and mourning rites revived by Native Americans forcibly removed from the American Southeast.

To capture the manifold forms...