The Upstate by Lindsay Turner

The Upstate

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The Upstate

University of Chicago Press

The Upstate

by Lindsay Turner

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Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis.

Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne's lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Turner's The Upstate is a book about southern Appalachia in a contemporary moment of change and development. Layering a personal lyric voice with a broader awareness of labor issues and political and ecological crises, The Upstate redefines a regional poetics as one attuned to national and global systems. These poems observe and emote, mourning acts of devastation and raging in their own quiet way against their continuation.

The poems in The Upstate arise from moments of darkness and desperation, mobilizing a critical intelligence against the status quo of place and history, all while fiercely upholding belief in the role of poetry to affect these conditions. Turner's poems weave spells around beloved places and people, yearning to shield them from destruction and to profess faith in the delicate beauties of the world at hand.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
9780226828640
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
72
Authors:
Lindsay Turner
Published Date:
2023-10-06
Language:
English
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About Lindsay Turner

A PhD in English from the University of Virginia and an MFA in poetry from New York University underpin Lindsay Turner's work as a poet and translator. She is the author of two poetry collections, Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018) and The Upstate (University of Chicago Press, 2023), with a third, Middle Slope, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2026. Stéphane Bouquet's The Next Loves, her translation from the French (Nightboat Books, 2019), was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and longlisted for the National Translation Award; she has twice received French Voices Grants for her translation work. Originally from northeast Tennessee, she is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University.

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