Carolina Ghost Woods

Judy Jordan · 2000 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

A first book set in the rural South Carolina of the poet's childhood, where poverty, family violence and the dead share the same woods and houses. The speaker returns to those places in plain, hard-edged lines that refuse sentiment about the country poor. It is a debut collection and the only book here by a poet otherwise little anthologised.

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