Youre Called By The Same Sound [TRADE PAPER ]

You’ re Called by the Same Soundis a reckoning, a confrontation, and a visionary meditation that interleaves private grief with public lament. As they dredge a family archive in response to histories of devastation in northwest Georgia and the American South, Alicia Wright’ s flinty lyrics inventory and seek to resist a legacy of despoliation. Wright extends the lineage of late Modernist poets like Lorine Niedecker and Susan Howe to warn us that history is a “ murky churn” in which our collective reflection is crystal clear.Alicia Wright is originally from Rome, Georgia, and has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Denver, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in English and Literary Arts. She is the editor ofAnnuletand publisher of Annulet Editions, and lives in Iowa City, where she works as Managing Editor ofThe Iowa Review.Wright is an up-and-coming force in the poetry world, a prolific editor and tastemaker, and her first book is highly anticipated in many corners of the poetry world. She has been published in some of the most important literary magazines in America. The book itself engages with the history of the American south in many varied ways, and would be fascinating for both regional and national audiences who are interested in poetry's capacity to approach history.