{"product_id":"born-in-the-usa-exploring-america-in-poems-the-south-east-poets","title":"Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The South-East Poets","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA celebration of American poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Kelly Burke, Trei House, John-Michael MacDonald(Unabridged: 1hrs 36mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Alice Dunbar Nelson, James Weldon Johnson, Sidney Lanier, Georgia Douglas Johnson, John Gould Fletcher, Willa Cather, Arna Bontemps, Zora Neale Hurston \u0026amp; many more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePoetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLittle wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most diverse and wide-ranging areas of the United States; the South-East. Within its borders are the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Its huge expanse lets our world-class poets including James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson explore a wide range of topics and subjects as they share their poetic talents with us on the States of their birth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44162178187342,"sku":"AB-478417","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/BornintheUSA-ExploringAmericainPoems-TheSouth-EastPoets.jpg?v=1786625831","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/en-gb\/products\/born-in-the-usa-exploring-america-in-poems-the-south-east-poets","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}