Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, "Deep South" is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller and Erskine Caldwell the minister's son.
Reverend Ira Sylvester Caldwell's missionary work took him and his family deep into the region commonly referred to as the Bible Belt. His son, Erskine, was at his side on innumerable home visits with the elderly, sick, and poor of Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Virginia, and Florida. By the time the younger Caldwell left home at seventeen, he had also witnessed such varieties of religious experience...
Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, "Deep South" is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller an...
This carefully selected collection from the entire fifteen-year span of the Southern Poetry Review displays an admirable richness of contemporary talent. Included among the seventy southern poets are the early works of such distinguished poets as A. R. Ammons, James Dickey, Fred Chappell, Josephine Jacobsen, Robert Watson, William Harmon, Wendell Berry, Vassar Miller, Robert Morgan, Betty Adcock, and Heather Miller.
Originally published in 1975.
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This carefully selected collection from the entire fifteen-year span of the Southern Poetry Review displays an admirable richness of contemporary tale...
