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9780807127889

Cathedrals of Kudzu : A Personal Landscape of the South

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807127889

  • ISBN10:

    0807127884

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-04-01
  • Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary

In these essays, one of the most influential Southern journalists of his generation sorts out a whole warehouse of Southern idiosyncrasy and iconography, including the Southern belle, Faulkner, James Dickey, Stonewall Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, guns, dogs, fathers, trees, George Wallace, Elvis, Doc Watson, the decline of poetry, and the return of chain gangs.

Table of Contents

Foredword xi
Fred Hobson
The Pen: This Is Our Swamp
The Last Wolverine: James Dickey (1923--1997)
3(6)
Cathedrals of Kudzu
9(6)
Strangers in the Swamp
15(6)
A Knight in White Flannel
21(6)
Percy Among the Nightingales
27(6)
The Tennessee Stud
33(6)
Burying a False Witness
39(8)
A Cobbler's Petition
47(4)
The Paris of the South
51(6)
The Sword: In Stonewall's Shadow
In Stonewall's Shadow
57(6)
Eating Rats at Vicksburg
63(6)
The Family of Man
69(6)
The Unteachables
75(4)
The Twelve Apostles
79(6)
From Auschwitz to Alabama
85(6)
Requiem for a Bantamweight
91(6)
The Last Southern Hero
97(8)
The Cross: Varieties of Religious Experience
A Feast of Snakes
105(6)
Angels on the Interstate
111(6)
The Hounds of Heaven
117(6)
The King and I
123(6)
Cross Purposes
129(6)
You Are My Sunshine
135(6)
God's Holy Fire
141(10)
Sweet Home Carolina: But Now I See
But Now I See
151(6)
On the Road Again
157(4)
Unsafe at Any Speed
161(6)
Father, Forgive Me
167(6)
The Cedars of Lebanon
173

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