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| Genre/Vorm: | Literary collections |
|---|---|
| Aanvullende fysieke materiaalsoort: | Online version: Literary Savannah. Athens, Ga. : Hill Street Press, c1998 (OCoLC)607118796 |
| Soort document: | Boek |
| Alle auteurs / medewerkers: |
Patrick Allen |
| ISBN: | 189251401X 9781892514011 |
| OCLC-nummer: | 40888568 |
| Beschrijving: | xii, 283 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Inhoud: | From An account of Carolina and Georgia / James Oglethorpe -- Origin legend of the Creek people / Chekilli -- From On love / John Wesley -- From The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African / Olaudah Equiano -- Letter to Savannah's Hebrew congregation / George Washington -- From Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida / William Bartram -- The lament of the captive / Richard Henry Wilde -- From Pleasure and pain : reminiscences of Georgia in the 1840s / Emily Pillsbury Burke -- Letter to Kate Perry / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Sut blown up with soda / George Washington Harris -- From Fast and loose in Dixie / J. Madison Drake -- From Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson -- From The memoirs of Gen. W.T. Sherman, written by himself / General William Tecumseh Sherman -- The cotton gin / Joel Chandler Harris -- From The American scene / Henry James -- From Thousand mile walk to the Gulf / John Muir -- Savannah twice visited / William Dean Howells -- Memories of my girlhood / Juliette Gordon Low -- Adrift in Georgia : Savannah / Sherwood Anderson -- Foreword to Harrriet Ross Colquitt's The Savannah cook book / Ogden Nash -- From The damned don't cry / Harry Hervey -- Strange moonlight / Conrad Aiken -- The king of the birds / Flannery O'Connor -- From A matter of vocabulary / James Alan McPherson -- From Beulah Land / Lonnie Coleman -- From A lion's share / Mark Steadman -- Untitled song lyric / Johnny Mercer -- From Holloween / Ben Greer -- Madeira and Moonshine / Alexander A. Lawrence -- The haunted library / Margaret Wayt DeBolt -- From Sleeping with soldiers / Rosemary Daniell -- From The distant lands / Julian Green -- From the dangerous lives of alter boys / Chris Fuhrman -- From Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story / John Berendt -- Gambling, liquor, and vice / Tom Coffey -- The death of Tomochichi / Ja J. Jahannes -- Return to Savannah / Aberjhani. |
| Verantwoordelijkheid: | edited by Patrick Allen. |
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A Great Literary Guide to a Great American City
Literary Savannah was among the first in a series of literary travel anthologies published by Hill Street Press when the company was founded in 1998. To include the city of Savannah, Georgia, in such a series would have made good sense at pretty much any time but particularly during the last...
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Literary Savannah was among the first in a series of literary travel anthologies published by Hill Street Press when the company was founded in 1998. To include the city of Savannah, Georgia, in such a series would have made good sense at pretty much any time but particularly during the last decade because of the spotlight cast on it by a developing film industry within the city and by the immense popularity of author John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."
The genius of this exceptional travel literary anthology is the eclectic mixture of names it includes. Some--like founding father George Washington and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano--many readers would not expect to find because of their globe-spanning historical stature. Others--like Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Lowe and songwriter Johnny Mercer--were natives of the city and therefore are less surprising. In total, the voices of some 37 writers, plus that of editor Patrick Allen, comprise the volume.
Among those voices are such modern chroniclers of Savannah's ongoing story as: Pulitzer Prize-winner James Alan McPherson; journalist Tom Coffey; playwright and educator Ja A. Jahannes; author and writing instructor Rosemary Danielle; and the author of "Savannah Spectres," Margaret Wayt DeBolt.
Much of the book's richness is also due to the variety of literary genres sampled within it. From passing glimpses of the city as jotted down in a notebook entry by novelist Henry James to famous declarations as made by General William T. Sherman in a letter to his commander in chief. Memoirs, fiction, essays, poetry, "true" accounts of hauntings, and songs all blend to create a finely balanced and nuanced portrait of one of the most uniquely beautiful cities in the United States.
by Author-Poet Aberjhani
author of The American Poet Who Went Home Again
and ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love
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