Word: drawls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...object of this scorn walks into his trailer, where I'm waiting to put a magnifying glass on him, and says, "Hey, what's up?" in a slight Midwestern drawl. Gordon grew up in California, but his parents moved him to Indiana at 14 because he'd been racing midget cars since he was a five-year-old, and there was more action in Indiana...
ELEGY FOR THE SOUTHERN DRAWL By Rodney Jones Houghton Mifflin...
...while my heart was set on an epic glorification of the graceful lilt of my once much stronger southern accent, Rodney Jones offered instead a peek into a world of universal local color. His poetry collection Elegy for the Southern Drawl draws on traditional themes of family, nature and religion, but grows throughout the collection to explore more obscure angles of the human experience. While Jones' poems initially evoke responses of tranquility and ease, by the end of Elegy the reader grown where Jones (NOT READABLE) lament...
...title poem "Elegy for the Southern Drawl," placed strategically in the book's middle, is welcomingly sprinkled with the sounds of "yes'm," "no'm" and "hidey" as Jones transports his reader temporarily to the forklift, the Shoney's or the Appalachian foothills. But it is not all a happy remembrance. At several points, the speaker reveals his embarrassment, that "until fourth grade, [he] spoke rarely...
...presents a poem entitled "Sacrament for My Penis." Obviously no longer holding the reserve of his past, the speaker and Jones have voyaged to another side. The language, its accent and its vocabulary, have died, and Jones demonstrates in his last section his own personal growth from his southern drawl...