Nine Persimmons
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Nine Persimmons

  1. 84 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Nine Persimmons

About this book

The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention

In Nine Persimmons Kerry James Evans traces a geography both intimate and far-flung—Tuscaloosa and Biloxi, Charleston and New Orleans, the Cloisters above Washington Heights, a banana orchard in the Azores, a journey to Rome. The poems move with the gravity of pilgrimage, their compass set between wandering and witness, as they cross from ballfields and shipyards into the charged realms of myth and ritual. Evans's gift lies in how the ordinary gathers its own divinity: persimmon seeds split to forecast winter, a grandmother's weed-eater gospel, Camaro burnouts paired with tarot, psalms rising as pelicans wheel into sudden sky. In this light Nine Persimmons reveals how the most unassuming corners of existence sometimes hold the deepest truths.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Praise
  3. The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. The Heavens Opened, and God Said,
  8. 1
  9. The World
  10. The Photograpï»żh | Boy in Window
  11. A Bit of Luck
  12. Kickball Cowboy
  13. Metaphysical Citrus
  14. The French Horn
  15. Highway 45 Truck Stop—Hamilton, Mississippi
  16. Nine Persimmons
  17. After the Rain
  18. Winter in Georgia
  19. The Alley
  20. Sun ï»ż& Moon
  21. 2
  22. The Sun King
  23. Changing a Truck Battery
  24. Coal
  25. Mississippi Snow
  26. Refrain
  27. The Minister of Macaroni
  28. My Younger Self Attempts Breakdancing at the Sadie Hawkins Dance
  29. Heat Index
  30. The Man in the Bucket
  31. The Beehive
  32. Tooth of the Lion
  33. Self-Portrait as Peach Orchard
  34. 3
  35. Manatee
  36. My Unborn
  37. Pulchrum est Paucorum Hominum
  38. Nectarine
  39. Field
  40. The High Priestess—Rider-Waite Tarot Deck
  41. Maria
  42. Buffalo Rock
  43. The Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival, Grayson Highlands State Park
  44. “Fantastic Pelicans Arrive”
  45. The Peninsula—Downtown Charleston
  46. Medieval Meditation
  47. Holy
  48. Source Acknowledgments

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