A moving and eloquent new collection of poetry celebrating Allman's winter home in South Carolina.
John Allman's new collection Lowcountry is a hymn to nature, as
experience during his winter stays in the rich and verdant Southern coastal
region known as the Low Country, stretching from Charleston to Savannah.
These poems celebrate the flora and fauna of that area, involving its
art and history, as the poet also explores meanings arising from his
own past and present. Lowcountry presents a surging array at once
narrative and lyric—meditations on the heraldic great blue heron,
a trio of works focused on the Civil War, hymns to married love, poems
about his daughter's pregnancy and the birth of her twin girls, as well
as poems relating to the events of 9/11. The motifs of journey and return
are everywhere in evidence.
JOHN ALLMAN was born in New York City in 1935. He's
received the Helen Bulls Prize from Poetry Northwest; a Pushcart Poetry
Prize; and a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in
Poetry.
Date of publication:
October 2007
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