false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg 910963 1 A cross between Yeats and a seasoned moonshiner <P>Elizabeth Hadaway doesn't just tell stories in her poems, she aims to delight as much as instruct, and her poems are scores for performance. Sparkling with shout-outs to Beowulf and Keats, varied meters, and surprising rhymes, she lifts centuries of hurt and anger into a contrary music. Her reach is vast, including everything from T. S. Eliot to the swans on her vinyl lace shower curtains. She warns us off from stereotypes and misconceptions about Appalachia and the South. <P>Here are short lyrics and long narratives, poems about ballads, baton twirling, hound dogs, Shelley, and NASCAR stars. In "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Car, of Dale Earnhardt at Daytona," she writes about a memorial T-shirt, "his face folded, half / in love with asphalt death." FIRE BATON announces the debut of a talented new poet of wit, vivacity, and color. And no matter how far she roams, she never lets us forget her roots, that she comes from a place "where where's whirr." 896068 9 2006 Fire Baton (Arkansas Poetry) (Arkansas Poetry) total:7|5:3|4:2|3:2| 7 29 12 0 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 0 0 false Sun Aug 30 09:17:56 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 09:17:59 -0700 2009 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 0 0 false Tue Aug 04 16:23:28 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 16:23:28 -0700 2009 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 0 0 false Sun Aug 02 11:06:27 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 11:06:27 -0700 2009 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 5 0 false Tue Jul 08 05:48:50 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 05:48:50 -0700 2008 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 0 0 false Thu May 15 20:57:09 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 20:57:15 -0700 2008 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 5 0 false Thu May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 18:03:18 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 17:55:47 -0700 2008 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 4 0 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 12 06:50:25 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 06:51:06 -0800 2008 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 3 0 false Sun Feb 10 12:31:48 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 24 19:27:15 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 24 19:27:21 -0800 2007 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 4 0 false Sun Oct 07 16:06:21 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 16:06:21 -0700 2007 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 0 0 false Mon Sep 24 11:49:27 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 11:49:27 -0700 2007 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 5 0 false Wed Aug 01 19:56:29 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 19:56:29 -0700 2007 910963 1557288240 9781557288240 7 0 4.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179384969m/910963.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910963.Fire_Baton 3 0 false Thu Jul 19 14:08:27 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 14:08:27 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=910963