Sean Hill, The Morning with Many Tongues; Southern Spaces

In these excerpts from a December 17, 2008 conversation, Sean Hill talks about sources and influences of the poems in Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. This interview took place on the porch of Andalusia, the home of Flannery O'Connor near Milledgeville, Georgia.

	Part 1 (8:46 min.) Topics: • Framing Blood Ties through reference to Nat Turner and Virginia in 1831. (0:00 — 4:07) • Recovering the missing black history of Milledgeville. "Luminous details" worked into poems. (4:08 — 8:46) RealMedia \| Windows Media \| QuickTime
	Part 2 (9:30 min.) Topics: • The effects of repetitions in Blood Ties. (0:00 — 2:32) • Hill's discovery of recent Milledgville. "I wasn't taught that history." (2:33 — 5:29) • Discussion of "The State House Aflame 1833" (5:30 — 6:40) • On learning of Flannery O'Connor. (6:41 — 9:30) RealMedia \| Windows Media \| QuickTime
	Part 3 (8:33 min.) Topics: • Imagining the characters (and the colors) of historical Milledgeville for Blood Ties. (0:00 — 3:59) • Resisting the lure of nostalgia. (4:00 — 5:20) • Writing about the women in his family and their effects upon his life. The importance of the "grandmother poems." (5:21 — 8:33) RealMedia \| Windows Media \| QuickTime

"The Morning with Many Tongues" is part of the Poets in Place series, a Research Collaboration in the Humanities initiative funded through Emory University’s Presidential Woodruff Fund, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost. Series producers are Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos.