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    Signals: Poems
    Signals: Poems
    Signals: Poems
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    Signals: Poems

    By Ed Madden and Afaa Weaver

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    Meditations on personal and cultural memory, race, and sexuality in the New South

    Selected by Afaa Weaver as the third annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Signals is the first book-length collection from Ed Madden. Deeply rooted in the recognizable landscapes and legacies of the American South, these lyric poems couple daring engagements in topics of race and sexuality with tender reflections on personal and cultural histories. Madden's adopted home of South Carolina rises to the surface in poems set at Folly Beach, Fort Moultrie, Lake Keowee, and Middleton Place. His interrogations of social oppression conjure the ubiquitous iconography of the bygone Confederacy, a first encounter with the miniseries Roots, and a cameo appearance by Strom Thurmond. In the collection's central section, Madden turns to issues of sexual difference, community formation, and the place of gay men in contemporary Southern culture. Throughout Madden repeatedly turns to the artifacts that demarcate his memories of youth in the rural South to ask how we define home, how we form meaning out of the silences and losses of the past, and what rituals and relationships might sustain us as we inch forward across a rough terrain of shifting emotional and moral challenges.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
    Release dateJun 5, 2012
    ISBN9781611171167
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      Much of this collection is devoted to nature and place-based poetry that has a quiet power, complete with some gorgeous images. It's not the sort of poetry I normally seek out, and although I can appreciate it for the images it evokes and the South Carolina it brings to mind for me, it doesn't quite have an emotional impact for me. The more powerful poems are those which marry the poet's sense of place with a quiet examination of race/race relations/racism--these poems being few and far between, but intensely quiet and thoughtful in a way that makes them resonate on a deeper level. Between those and the lovely language throughout this collection, and the images that bring to mind South Carolina (where I lived for five years and hope to eventually get back to), I'm glad to have come across this collection. I'm sure I'll revisit some of the poems in the future.

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