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Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery OConnor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Flannery OConnor. In these poems, poet and scholar Angela Alaimo ODonnell imagines the rich interior life Flannery lived during the last fourteen years of her life in rural Georgia on her familys farm named Andalusia. Each poem begins with an epigraph taken from OConnors essays, stories, or letters; the poet then plumbs Flannerys thoughts and the poignant circumstances behind them, welcoming the reader into OConnors private world. Together the poems tell the story of a brilliant young woman who enjoyed a bright and promising childhood, was struck with lupus just as her writing career hit its stride, and was forced to return home and live out her days in exile, far from the literary world she loved. By turns tragic and comic, the poems in Andalusian Hours explore Flannerys loves and losses, her complex relationship with her mother, her battle with her illness and disability, and her passion for her writing. The poems mark time in keeping with the liturgical hours OConnor herself honored in her prayer life and in her quasi-monastic devotion to her vocation and to the home she learned to love, Andalusia.About the AuthorAngela Alaimo ODonnell, Ph.D., is a writer, poet, and professor. She teaches English, Creative Writing, and courses in Catholic Studies at Fordham University in New York City and serves as Associate Director of Fordhams Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. She is also co-editor of the Curran Centers new book series, Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery OConnor Trust Series, published by Fordham University Press. In addition, she has recently received the good news that the Flannery OConnor Trust is bestowing a grant for $450,000 to the Curran Center in response to her application to endow international conferences devoted to promoting OConnors work.
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