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A nominee
Scott Owens, nominated by the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature for inclusion in Sundress’s 2008 Best of the Net anthology, calls his online chapbook Desperately Like A Sound.
Here is his Southern Legitimacy Statement:
I said to my friend Tim, “I don’t know how poets in other parts of the country have anything to write about. We seem to have such a monopoly on the bizarre, the pathetic, and the passionately contradictory.” I said this after telling him about my mother’s seventh husband’s father who lived in the same four-room house with his wife and his ex-wife. They were sisters. They lived in the same community where everyone I knew under the age of 18 was taught to say “yes, ma’am” and “no, ma’am” and switched or backhanded if they didn’t. It is the South’s brutal civility, stubborn independence, intolerant faith, and other everyday idiosyncrasies that constitute the seemingly inexhaustible source of the Southern writer.
His nominated poem is “Foundlings.” You can read it at this link.
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3 Comments
1. mike lovell replies at 21st August 2008, 3:21 pm :
Same comment can be directed toward the nomination of Clare as well…those Southern Legitimacy Statements are pretty cool and interesting!
2. scott Owens replies at 21st August 2008, 9:45 pm :
Sherry,
Thanks for posting this. The Mule is such a wonderful place to keep up with the “news” (in the Williams sense) of the South.
3. sherry replies at 6th September 2008, 11:47 am :
Dear Ones, I want to go back a ways and thank Scott Owens and Clare Martin for stopping by here. Helen, what word from Clare?
Meanwhile my cousin Max tells me he is sitting out Hannah comfortably enough over on the Virginia coast, with the horses bedded safely in their stalls.
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