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The Statue in the Glade

By David Middleton

   ‘Only such men could tell what once could be,   Hear what we hear, see what we see.’    Donald Davidson, “Late Answer: A Civil War Seminar” The wind is all but silent in the… »

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The War Between the Dreams

By David Middleton

Old slave and planter graves a flight apart For thrushes eating seeds of grass and yew, The unmarked plots and plots with dates and names Too weatherworn to trace and know in stone, Bones sinking… »

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“‘Finished in Beauty’ and in Memories”: Catharine Savage Brosman’s Book of Hours

By David Middleton

A review-essay on A Memory of Manaus: Poems by Catharine Savage Brosman. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2017. A Memory of Manaus, Catharine Brosman’s eleventh full-length collection of poetry, confirms her rightful place in the… »

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Why the South Won the Civil War

By David Middleton

Fred Douglas Young, Richard M. Weaver, 1910-1963: A Life of the Mind. University of Missouri Press, 1995. 217; Joseph Scotchie, editor, The Vision of Richard Weaver. Transaction Publishers, 1995. Early in the fall of 1939,… »

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Upon the Painting by Paul Davis of the Statue of a Young Confederate Soldier

By David Middleton

Upon the Painting by Paul Davis of the Statue of a Young Confederate Soldier —on the cover of The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective (William Pratt, editor, 1965)— in honor of Clyde Wilson… »

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Modern Times

By David Middleton

Goodbye, Dear   How seldom now do you begin with Dear, Both warm and formal (civil) but a mere First name — “David:” — like a Sir or Madam   Summons to a wayward child of… »

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Test Pattern

By David Middleton

It filled the screen from midnight until dawn After the late show, anthem, station sign In those brief early days of innocence When television broadcast black and white. The pattern was rectangular, abstract, Made up… »

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Tate, Donald Davidson, and “The Last Charge” by David Middleton

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Poems by David Middleton

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  • The Greatness of Southern Literature Part III

At the Grave of General Francis T. Nicholls (1834-1912)

By David Middleton

St. John’s Episcopal Church, Thibodaux, Louisiana Fenced off by iron and antebellum oaks These April graves grow fragrant in the sun. Sprung dandelions, puffballs, and buttercups Tremble against the fissured concrete urns Whose lichen-blotched worn… »

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