I Hope It's Not Over, and Good-by: Selected Poems of Everette Maddox

by Everette Maddox, Ralph Adamo

Overview

Andrei Codrescu calls Everette Maddox the Christ of New Orleans. Editor Ralph Adamo has brought his critical eye to bear on the work and selected the best from the published collections as well as many poems uncollected to date. This is Maddox's first publication by a major press. Adamo's interesting selection and thematic ordering of the poems puts them in a new light; even the most famous of them acquire new dimensions from his innovative arrangement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608010004
Publisher:	University of New Orleans Press
Publication date:	11/16/2009
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Everette Maddox was a poet, who in 1979 co-founded the longest-running poetry reading series in the South at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and after studying at the University of Alabama, he was named Poet-in-Residence at Xavier University in 1975. His work has been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. He passed away in 1989.