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" Ledger of crossroads : "
James Brasfield.
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BL
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1001681
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b756051
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| Main Entry
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Brasfield, James.
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| Title & Author
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Ledger of crossroads : : poems /\ James Brasfield.
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Baton Rouge :: Louisiana State University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (56 pages)
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0807135208
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: 0807136530
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: 9780807135204
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: 9780807136539
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9780807135204
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| Contents
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I; II; III; IV; notes.
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| Abstract
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In James Brasfield's Ledger of Crossroads, layered by light and shadow, the crossroads emerge from distinct yet inseparable geographies. Grounded in the sensual world, the poems fuse American and Eastern European landscapes: "the char of silence and beauty, / brick foundations of what was here, dirt roads / cut through pines, rivers and the dust of the dead." Here are experiences from the American South, of those who believed Jim Crow "the way things ... had to be," and from the fallen imperiums of those "who have always / returned to fewer trees and a wall," whose intimate perceptions provi.
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Brasfield, James.
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Brasfield, James.
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Brasfield, James.
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Poetry.
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Poetry
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POETRY-- American-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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811/.6
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PS3552.R32755L43 2009eb
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