Cottonlandia

by Rebecca Black and Rebecca Black

The poems in Rebecca Black's first volume, Cottonlandia, move through myth and landscape, beginning in the deep South's "shimmer and tar" and ending in the "soot and orange dolor" of the California desert. Cottonlandia conjures a proto-continent where fashionable golems pose for antique photographs and nineteenth-century naturalists wander into the melee of the civil rights struggle in the South.

By turns haunting and comic, Black's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155849491X
• ISBN13: 9781558494916
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"