Melissa Dickson: Five Poems
Southern Legitimacy Statement:
I was born in the South, raised in the South, left the South, and came on back to the South. I capitalize South. Margaret Mitchell grew up playing on land her great-grandparents bought from my great-great grandparents. If you go back far enough the Dickson's and the Dixon's are the same dang folk. My first book was half-about the Civil War. I know how to make cornbread without looking at a recipe and it doesn't have sugar in it. I think that's a Yankee thang. At least I know a Yankee who puts sugar in his cornbread.
