Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining [Paperback]

Winner of the 2016 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award,Southern Tongues Leave Us Shiningexplores the South andits history through the eyes of the living, the dead, and the inbetween. Winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, selected by Afaa Weaver

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Promotion through social media to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, and AmazonLanguage is the fire that survives us, Mark Wagenaar writes, and we are seared gladly by his brilliant flames. A pilgrim in the Christ-haunted South, as Flannery OConnor describes it, these poems reckon with the sins of history and the human-made scars on the natural world. The songs of Charles Wright, Rilke, and Blind Willie Johnson have tuned Wagenaars ear, but the music is his own, irresistibly so.Southern Tongues Leave Us Shiningis a brave and difficult grappling, ending with the difficult joy of a childs birth and the worlds subsequent remaking. This isl£$