Marianne Worthington

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A Bouffant Stacked Toward Heaven

Four new poems by—and an interview with— Marianne Worthington, author of “The Girl Singer”

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Our Southern Reader’s Travelogue series continues with a visit to Milledgeville, Georgia, where Flannery O’Connor raised peacocks until her death at age 39. Peacocks still roam at Andalusia, and the rest of the property looks just like it did when she was writing her classic novels and stories.

No mother tongue is as rich as the Southern one. Our words are musical, and poetry expresses them with soul-shaking force. Annie Woodford celebrates the songs we say.

Musicians as exciting as Willi Carlisle come along once in a blue moon.

What we want to believe about our ancestors and what we believed as children pose questions that may never have answers.

Smiling Easter bunnies? Not hardly.

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Just across the state line, that’s where you go to be a man.

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