Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems Chris Scanlan and what I learned through

and what I learned through the process

and from that

The story begins and ends with the fifth-generation figure

Their chance encounter turns into an unforgettable weekend

he redeveloped the plantation into a marginally viable operation with the help of formerly enslaved people who stayed with the family as employees - until his father returned from Union imprisonment and fully recovered

Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems Chris Scanlan and what I learned throughTo poems selected from Margaret Gibsons five previous volumes, Earth Elegy adds a book length collection of new verse. Together they trace the workings of a sensibility that focuses emotional intensity like light through a magnifying glass, bringing its subjects alive in blazes of almost unbearable clarity. Earth Elegy, writes Carolyn Forch, partakes of Rilkes apprehension of poetry as the natural prayer of the human soul, issuing from a radiant