On the Mason-Dixon Line : An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers
by Travalini, Billie; Brown, FledaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-08-31
Publisher(s): Associated Univ Pr
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Summary
"This is the first major collection of its kind - fifty-two poems, shorts stories, essays, and excerpts from novels and memoirs by writers who live in Delaware, or who have lived in the state long enough to have been influenced by its cities, beaches, rivers, and farms. This anthology provides, through the accumulated vision of its writers, a definition of what it means to be a Delawarean."--BOOK JACKET.
Author Biography
About the Editors: Billie Travalini is founding director of the New Castle Writers' Conference and a fiction editor for the Journal of Caribbean Literatures. Currently she is an adjunct professor at Wilmington University and Lincoln University. Fleda Brown is Professor Emerita of the University of Delaware and former Poet Laureate of Delaware.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. 9 |
| Introduction | p. 13 |
| "The Miss America Family" | p. 19 |
| "Living Where They Raised Me" (poem) | |
| "Comfort, Cape Henlopen" (poem) | p. 26 |
| "Loading Hogs for Market" (poem) | p. 28 |
| "Anatomy of a Seizure" (essay) | p. 29 |
| "Delaware" (poem) | |
| "An Archaeological Dig: My Unwanted Third Century Monk" (poem) | p. 43 |
| "Playing Chicken on the Tracks" (poem) | p. 44 |
| "A Gentleman's Game" (story) | p. 45 |
| "Pelican Sky" (poem) | p. 51 |
| "Death of a Deer" (story) | p. 54 |
| "The Tailman" (story) | p. 59 |
| "Poem for a Birthday" (poem) | p. 65 |
| "Cornelia" (novel excerpt) | |
| "The Lady of Annie B Street is Gone" (poem) | p. 78 |
| "Stillborn" (essay) | p. 79 |
| "Downstate" (poem) | p. 92 |
| "Afterimages" (poem) | |
| "From the Seventh Floor of the Carvel State Office Building" (poem) | p. 97 |
| "For a Former Student Found at Fleming's Landing After Two Years at the Bottom of the Smyrna River" (poem) | p. 98 |
| "George Stubbs's 'Plate for the Sixth Anatomical Table of the Muscles, Fascias, Ligaments, Nerves, Arteries, Veins, Glands and Cartilages of a Horse, Viewed in Front, Explained' " (poem) | |
| "The Visit" (poem) | p. 101 |
| "The Practice of Scales" (poem) | p. 102 |
| "And None Came Back" (essay) | p. 103 |
| "Mule" (poem) | p. 117 |
| "Levittown, 1951" (poem) | p. 119 |
| "some metals tarnish" (poem) | p. 121 |
| "Jane Eyre, Unbanned" (poem) | p. 122 |
| "Unfinished Love Poem" (poem) | p. 123 |
| "Out of Order" (story) | p. 126 |
| "Slug" (poem) | p. 141 |
| "Delivered" (story) | p. 142 |
| "Martin Luther King at 75" (poem) | p. 148 |
| "Elvis Is an Angel Now" (poem) | p. 150 |
| "Winkle" (poem) | p. 151 |
| "Route 82, Above the Brandywine" (poem) | p. 152 |
| "Fruitcakes and Fiction" (story) | p. 153 |
| "Lost Springs" (poem) | p. 158 |
| "Shouting Nazarene" (story) | p. 159 |
| "Wexford Boy" (poem) | p. 173 |
| "A Vacant Lot" (poem) | p. 174 |
| "Waiting for You with the Swallows" (poem) | |
| "The Green Fairy" (essay) | p. 177 |
| "That Sort of Woman" (story) | |
| "Resurrection Hockey" (story) | p. 193 |
| "Delaware" (poem) | p. 208 |
| "Cherry Saplings" (poem) | p. 210 |
| "The Marsh" (poem) | |
| "Getting Out More" (story) | p. 213 |
| "To My Quaker Grandmother" (poem) | p. 232 |
| "Bloodsisters" (memoir excerpt) | |
| "In the Age of Automobiles" (story) | p. 246 |
| "Betting in Bright Sunlight at Delaware Park" (poem) | p. 256 |
| "Driving North to the Headwater" (poem) | |
| "Me and the Bean" (story) | p. 260 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 268 |
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