The Upstate Turner Lindsay
The Upstate Turner Lindsay Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis.Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne's lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in…
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The Upstate Turner Lindsay
Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis.Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne's lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Turner's The Upstate is a book about southern Appalachia in a contemporary moment of change and development. These poems observe and emote, mourning acts of devastation and raging in their own quiet way against their continuation.The poems in The Upstate arise from moments of darkness and desperation, mobilizing a critical intelligence against the status quo of place and history, all while fiercely upholding belief in the role of poetry to affect these Layering a personal lyric voice with a broader awareness of labor issues and political and ecological crises, The Upstate redefines a regional poetics as one attuned to national and global systems.