EasterBlack-owned or founded brands at TargetGroceryClothing, Shoes & AccessoriesBabyHomeFurnitureKitchen & DiningOutdoor Living & GardenToysElectronicsVideo GamesMovies, Music & BooksSports & OutdoorsBeautyPersonal CareHealthPetsHousehold EssentialsArts, Crafts & SewingSchool & Office SuppliesParty SuppliesLuggageGift IdeasGift CardsClearanceTarget New ArrivalsTarget Finds#TargetStyleTop DealsTarget Circle DealsWeekly AdShop Order PickupShop Same Day DeliveryRegistryRedCardTarget CircleFind Stores

Blood Ties & Brown Liquor - by Sean Hill (Paperback)

Blood Ties & Brown Liquor - by  Sean Hill (Paperback) - 1 of 1
$12.80 sale price when purchased online
$21.95 list price
Target Online store #3991

About this item

Highlights

  • Sean Hill's debut collection, imaginative in the characters it invents and in the formal literary traditions it juxtaposes, is nevertheless firmly rooted in Hill's hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, which he transforms into a poetic landscape that can accommodate the scope of his vision of collective and personal history.
  • About the Author: SEAN HILL is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
  • 96 Pages
  • Poetry, American

Description



About the Book



Sean Hill's debut collection, imaginative in the characters it invents and in the formal literary traditions it juxtaposes, is nevertheless firmly rooted in Hill's hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, which he transforms into a poetic landscape that can accommodate the scope of his vision of collective and personal history.



Book Synopsis



Sean Hill's debut collection, imaginative in the characters it invents and in the formal literary traditions it juxtaposes, is nevertheless firmly rooted in Hill's hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, which he transforms into a poetic landscape that can accommodate the scope of his vision of collective and personal history. The poems create a call and response across six generations of family of the fictional Silas Wright, a black man born in 1907. As Hill takes on the voices and experiences of diverse characters in or connected to the Wright family, these individual glimpses add up to an intimate portrait of Milledgeville's black community across two centuries as it responds to stirring events both public and private.

From a slave woman's scratchy hay-stuffed mattress to a black insurance agent's sinister patter, from sweet honey to the searing heat of brickyard kilns, the poems make vivid the sensuous details of quotidian lives punctuated by love and violence. From pantoum to haiku, from high-toned lyricism to low-down blues, Hill uses language in all its many incarnations to speak deeply about both southern identity and African American community.



Review Quotes




Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop: these are among the select few whose first books signaled a new vision of form and vernacular, an everyday elegance. We can now add Sean Hill's transcendent debut to that remarkable list. With his blues and villanelles, his haibun and his 'quiet lore, ' Hill 'greets the morning/with many tongues, ' making the history of his hometown not just a living thing, but a song. Blood Ties & Brown Liquor is the real thing--a book to believe in.

--Kevin Young "author of For the Confederate Dead"

Milledgeville, Georgia, exists for most readers through the lens of one writer, a brilliant and famous white woman who lies in the cemetery's high ground, safely above the floodwaters. But lower down lie the buried citizens of another, less seen community. Sean Hill's songs are native to his town. Formally various, richly textured, they voice unwritten history with an acute sense of the deep sound of a place, the stream of blood and talk that courses through this writer's living hands.

--Mark Doty "author of Fire to Fire: New & Selected Poems"

Sean Hill has given us a deeply moving fictive exploration--an excavation!--of the world that shaped him. Silas Wright is his personal entryway to the historical past and these fully realized lyrics are the forms of his poetic truth.

--Edward Hirsch "author of Poet's Choice"

Hill sets his poems amid the beauty of the former state capital's crape myrtles and mockingbirds while simultaneously confronting the legacy of enslavement inherited by Milledgeville's black community. Blood Ties & Brown Liquor is an innovative collection of bluesy, meditative poems that is certain to mark Hill's emergence as a major new voice in American poetry.

--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Hill speaks in an authentic voice filled with brilliant imagery and powered by a steady blues beat. . . . . Hill's poetry debut marks the introduction of an authentic Southern voice that speaks for the African-American community and all native Southerners. Don't be surprised if this Georgia-born poet's eye for detail, his memorable imagery, and his talent for telling stories from the past earn him a place among the best poets of our time.

--Athens Magazine



About the Author



SEAN HILL is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He received his MFA from the University of Houston in 2003 and was awarded a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing in 2006. Hill's poems have been published widely in journals, including Callaloo, Indiana Review, and Ploughshares.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.58 Inches (H) x 5.38 Inches (W) x .24 Inches (D)
Weight: .32 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: American
Genre: Poetry
Number of Pages: 96
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Sean Hill
Language: English
Street Date: March 15, 2008
TCIN: 88979291
UPC: 9780820330938
Item Number (DPCI): 247-57-2981
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

Shipping details

Estimated ship dimensions: 0.24 inches length x 5.38 inches width x 8.58 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.32 pounds
We regret that this item cannot be shipped to PO Boxes.
This item cannot be shipped to the following locations: American Samoa (see also separate entry under AS), Guam (see also separate entry under GU), Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico (see also separate entry under PR), United States Minor Outlying Islands, Virgin Islands, U.S., APO/FPO

Return details

This item can be returned to any Target store or Target.com.
This item must be returned within 90 days of the date it was purchased in store, shipped, delivered by a Shipt shopper, or made ready for pickup.
See the return policy for complete information.

Related Categories

Get top deals, latest trends, and more.

Privacy policy

Footer

About Us

About TargetCareersNews & BlogTarget BrandsBullseye ShopSustainability & GovernancePress CenterAdvertise with UsInvestorsAffiliates & PartnersSuppliersTargetPlus

Help

Target HelpReturnsTrack OrdersRecallsContact UsFeedbackAccessibilitySecurity & FraudTeam Member ServicesLegal & Privacy

Stores

Find a StoreClinicPharmacyTarget OpticalMore In-Store Services

Services

Target Circle™Target Circle™ CardTarget Circle 360™Target AppRegistrySame Day DeliveryOrder PickupDrive UpFree 2-Day ShippingShipping & DeliveryMore Services
PinterestFacebookInstagramXYoutubeTiktokTermsCA Supply ChainPrivacy PolicyCA Privacy RightsYour Privacy ChoicesInterest Based AdsHealth Privacy Policy