Madness Like Morning Glories

by Davenport, Doris

• ISBN13: 9780807129920
• ISBN10: 0807129925
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

In her enchanting poem sequence, Doris Davenport introduces, readers to Soque Street and its "Afrilacian" residents. These African Americans inhabiting an Appalachian community in northeast Georgia live in a world where magic threads daily life, and the living and dead commingle. Ghosts, self-propelled caskets, and sensate trees are as natural as morning glories to these characters, who are at once eccentric and universal, peculiar and welcoming. The story of Soque Street moves from voice to voice and through a mix of poetic forms with ease and confidence. Sometimes frightening, often funny, and always compelling and potent, Madness like Morning Glories is a major achievement by a poet of tremendous originality who possesses an intuition for the subtle secrets of language.

Author Biography

Doris Davenport is a performance poet, writer, and educator

Table of Contents

Invocation	1	(1)
``Now I know you remember so and so''	2	(1)
Miz Fannie Mae Gibson Shueberg	3	(2)
Lutesha Brown, a conjure woman with an attitude	5	(2)
Marie Duvalle (Witch Marie La Strega)	7	(1)
Nurse Marsha Greenlee	8	(2)
Mr. Arthur Wright	10	(2)
Miz Maggie Wright	12	(1)
Miz Amy	13	(2)
Claude Davenport	15	(1)
Testimonials (about Claude)	16	(2)
Ethel Mae Gibson	18	(1)
1002 Desota Drive, Newtown	19	(1)
103 Soque	20	(1)
Ceremony for 103 Soque Street	21	(4)
Miz Clio Savant	25	(3)
Cornelia Regional (Colored) High School	28	(7)
and here they come	34	(1)
The Egotistical Sublime	35	(1)
Church	36	(3)
Sally's Cafe	39	(2)
Mr. Papa Doc Williams	41	(2)
Miz Zelma (Shankle) Crow	43	(1)
Clio (continued)	44	(1)
so many of them	45	(1)
Betty, Miz Zelma's granddaughter	46	(1)
Mr. Garland Cook	46	(1)
Death on Soque Street	47	(2)
Cycles	49	(1)
Legacy	50	(1)
The Gibsons, strolling	51	(1)
The Summer of 1963 : James & Gladys	52	(4)
Courtship at 103 Soque	53	(1)
those lamps	54	(1)
Gladys & Irene	55	(1)
Gladys Parlee Gibson Trimiar	56	(1)
Tanya Davenport	57	(1)
Ceremony	58