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An annual journal of contemporary literature in the United States and abroad. Special attention is paid to the culture and history of the American South. Pieces include poetry, interviews, book reviews, novel excerpts, critical essays, and fiction.
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The Southern Review back issues
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Editor's note.
January 1, 2007... With this special issue, Writing in the South, we offer the seventeenth number in an ongoing series dating back to volume 4, number 2, our spring 1968 issue. The choice to put together this new instance of a series nearly forty years on didn't grow out of a felt obligation to a publishing...
How Okies look to natives.(Short story)
January 1, 2007... THE SUMMER BEFORE HE LEFT FOR COLLEGE Gib Harrell had been haunted by a fear too deep for reason. It was 1969, he was eighteen, and he felt stalked by something terrible and mortal, afraid he was going to die before he'd lived. Nothing he tried, not beer or weed or backseat groping, could...
Mysterious Ways.(Poem)
January 1, 2007...
Mysterious Ways
He actually said it--that, and
Material things can be replaced.
Loud as a stump grinder, twice
he yelled from across the street
before I made landfall
and was out of the car to witness
the mess firsthand--three trees
through the roof,...
Ode to Contractors Possessing Various Levels of Expertise.(Poem)
January 1, 2007...
Ode to Contractors Possessing
Various Levels of Expertise
This one's a shout out to the git-r-dones,
the crowd since Katrina most idolized
and sucked up to--seminude roofers,
hard-hatters, electricians, tree doctors,
Ditch Witch pilots dwelling in tent cities
...
The Sign of a Carpenter.(Poem)
January 1, 2007...
The Sign of a Carpenter
The doors, oak. No, pine stained to oak.
This neighborhood, commuter neighborhood,
quick-build houses for the new middle class,
people working the factory line at Michoud
making the shuttle's external tank.
Their doors might hang slightly...