Crab Orchard Review Vol. 12, No. 2, our

the Crab Orchard Series
in Poetry
2006 Open Competition Award
Red Clay Suite
Poems by
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
“Honorée Fanonne Jeffers drives her
dark poetic vision through America,
gathering what she can that will sustain,
suffice. From the deep south of Georgia
where peaches ‘liquor’ the air and ‘the
clotted sounds of lament... / cling to the
roots,’ to Oklahoma where she reflects on
the Tulsa Riots, and on through to Ohio,
‘Underground Railroad country,’
looking for ‘the truth of this land….’
Red Clay Suite is a long perilous song:
one woman’s confounding history, and
the untold history of a nation vibrating
on every page.”—Dorianne Laux, author
of Facts About the Moon
Series Editor, Jon Tribble
“Honorée Jeffers leads with her ear and follows
with her rigorous intellect, then adds an emotional
depth and fearlessness that make her poems
uniquely powerful. This brilliant third book is a
thinking woman’s blues that continues to challenge,
delight, and terrify.”—Elizabeth Alexander, author
of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated American Sublime
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