Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining by Mark Wagenaar -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright page Acknowledgments Contents Introduction I. Dark Was the Night / Cold Was the Ground

Refugee Southern Gothic I Nocturne with Horses (Another Exile) Southern Gothic II Blue (Southern Exiles) Migrations (White Lilacs) The Oddsmaker (The Little Book of Fate) Reply to Du Mu from the South A Charm for Protection / from the Protectors Diptych: Self-Portrait with Hundreds of Horse Skulls (Solve for X) Fort Worth Impromptu

II. Trouble Will Soon Be Over

Mississippi Tongues: a Poem in Nine Parts

I. Southern Divinations II. What’s the Last Thing that Goes Through a Bug’s Head III. Southern Locution (Erasures) IV. Mama Jan’s Advice for This Life V. Issaquena County Blues (Theology) VI. Interview with the Last Blacksmith in Mississippi VII. Natchez Trace Ecstatic VIII. String Theory IX. A Charm for Ghosts (Mississippi Tongues Coda)

Lost Hour Blues Salvage Drought Blues Ante Up Winter Song Texas Blues Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining

III. Bye & Bye I’m Going to See the King

Appalachian Vowels Auramancy Reliquaries Silence Nocturne with Fitted Absences Appalachian Farewell The Trick

IV. Sweeter as the Years Go By

Southern Update: Triptych Letter to My Daughter Perhaps Someday Nocturne &/or Aubade with Horses

V. Let Your Light Shine on Me

Southern Divinations II How Does a Man Become a Hashtag They Ate the Bulbs of Tulips Prayer for This Day Late Sestet Let It Shine on Me Southern Tongues Coda (Precision Dying) Texas Blues II Stray Paragraphs from the Year of the Rooster Letteromancy (The New Causality) Aubade with Horses (Fort Worth Impromptu II)

Biographical Note