Helen F Blackshear

Vanished in the Unknown Shade

Poet Sidney Lanier's Montgomery Years

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Produktbeschreibung

A brief biography of the Montgomery years of poet Sidney Lanier, considered by some the leading writer of the post-Civil War South. Lanier was a Georgian, but he spent two years after the war in Montgomery, Alabama, trying to restore his health after contracting tuberculosis while a POW. He also was principal of a school in nearby Prattville.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New South Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 95g
• ISBN-13: 9781603062619
• ISBN-10: 1603062610
• Artikelnr.: 46888848

Autorenporträt

Helen Friedman Blackshear served from 1995 to 1999 as Alabama's eighth poet laureate. A native and present resident of Tuscaloosa, she lived in Montgomery from 1934 to 2003. She has three daughters, eight grandchildren, and fourteen great-grandchildren. A graduate of Agnes Scott College, she also has an M.A. from the University of Alabama. She is the author of Mother Was a Rebel, Southern Smorgasbord, Creek Captives, Alabama Album, Silver Songs, and From Peddler to Philanthropist: The Friedman Story. She also edited These I Would Keep, an anthology of poems by Alabama's first through ninth poet laureates. She has served as treasurer and vice-president of the Alabama Poetry Society and as president of the Alabama Writers' Conclave. She was Poet of the Year in 1986 and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Conclave in 1987.