{"product_id":"beyond-the-chandeleurs-poems-paperback","title":"Beyond the Chandeleurs: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Middleton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Chandeleurs\u003c\/i\u003e, David Middleton completes a long journey home to his native South, his beloved Louisiana, and his Anglican faith. This collection, whose title refers to barrier islands off the Louisiana coast, takes the poet beyond earlier doubts concerning the cosmos and its Creator to a loving trust in Providence often expressed in psalm-like poems that celebrate both the beauty and the rational intelligibility of the natural order of things. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Louisiana poems--set in the Protestant north of the poet's childhood and in the Roman Catholic south where he now resides--richly evoke the flora, fauna, geography, and history of the state and also honor family members, including Middleton's father, who is memorialized in \"For an Artist with Parkinson's.\" In \"The Duck Hunt,\" Middleton contrasts the oil rigs off the Louisiana coast--where men desperately seek more oil to keep the modern world going--with the primitive coastland marshes where hunters are taken back momentarily to archaic times (\"This open wilderness of grass and mud\"). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOther poems, such as \"The Yeoman Farmers,\" \"Dinner on the Ground,\" and \"Oak Alley,\" are meditations on the history of the South that reveal Middleton as a late inheritor of the Agrarian tradition. Indeed, \"At Franklin\" is in direct response to Allen Tate's famous \"Ode to the Confederate Dead,\" to letters on that poem between Tate and Donald Davidson, and to Davidson's own answering poem to Tate, \"The Last Charge.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith its extraordinary sense of place, artful storytelling, and wide range of verse forms and language, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Chandeleurs\u003c\/i\u003e is a volume to cherish.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Middleton, Distinguished Service Professor of English and poet-in-residence at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Fields\u003c\/i\u003e. He serves as poetry editor of the \u003ci\u003eAnglican Theological Review, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eClassical Outlook, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLouisiana English Journal.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 73\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9.03 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757673808160,"sku":"9780807123782","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/50c96d48a96cc3a7084963134d6af78d.webp?v=1780108534","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/beyond-the-chandeleurs-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}