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John Saad Longleaf (Paperback). Longleaf is a chapbook of poems deeply rooted in place and the landscape of John Saad's native coastal Alabama. With finely wrought images and specialized yet lyrical language that recall the best of Rodney Jones and Philip Levine, Saad brings us into his world of the Deep South, where 'the fumbled light of live oaks' mingles with 'the ferrous / howls / of valley dogs.'. Further DetailsTitle: Longleaf Condition: New Description: Longleaf is a chapbook of poems deeply rooted in place and the landscape of John Saad's native coastal Alabama. This wide-ranging and wise collection shows the poet's bone-deep connection to home that stems from childhood through early adulthood. With finely wrought images and specialized yet lyrical language that recall the best of Rodney Jones and Philip Levine, Saad brings us into his world of the Deep South, where 'the fumbled light of live oaks' mingles with 'the ferrous / howls / of valley dogs.' In these pages, memories of family are woven with observations of a natural world in constant conversation with civilization and the machines that encroach upon it. Still, Saad's poems prove that his environment can and will endure, no matter how marked with freeways and 'smokestacks belching black.' Windows still give us views of an 'anvil sky' dissolving 'over the purple pulse / of switchgrass,' and we can—like the guitar he once abandoned on a riverbank—lose ourselves in 'the cutbank's slow refrains,' at last redeemed by 'the water's dark applause.' Author: John Saad EAN: 9780998260440 Format: Paperback Country/Region of Manufacture: US ISBN: 9780998260440 Language: English Item Height: 210mm Item Length: 129mm Item Weight: 77g Genre: Poetry & Drama Item Width: 5mm Publisher: Green Writers Press Release Date: 09/14/2017 Release Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
