The White Train

By John Spaulding; Henry Taylor (Selected by)
(Louisiana State University Press, Paperback, 9780807129982, 52pp.)

Publication Date: September 2004

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (September 2004)

Categories: American - General

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Inspired by daguerreotypes, tin-types, stereopticon slides, snapshots, and even yearbook photos, the poems in The White Train offer stark, sometimes sensual portraits of those no longer able to speak for themselves. In an evocative and resonant voice, John Spaulding explores history through the work of photographers over a hundred-year period, including Southworth and Hawes, Roger Fenton, Timothy O'Sullivan, Robert Howlett, Frederick Evans, Lewis Hine, and many anonymous amateurs. Even in their most overt references to pictures, Spaulding's poems are worlds unto themselves, abundantly filled with sounds, smells, and feelings that cannot be photographed.
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