Saturday, February 11, 2012

DeRidder Mon Amour


Hopper

DeRidder Mon Amour

“the spectacular ugliness
and hostility of our cities”
—James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

DeRidder memoir—
Badboy Orphée descent down
Into Dixie Hell

Oxymoronic—
Orphanage of his poet
Adolescent dreams

Images of decay—
Self-consciously recalling
Work of Walker Evans

Pages from Invisible Man—
Rural South Pulp Fiction
Cotton Patch History

Explaining nothing—
Photo-text highlights
Hardly poetry

Image and words—
Writerly return to his
HooDoo VooDoo Past

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