Though readers tend to focus on characterization and plot, these could not be realized without the writer’s careful consideration of the narrator’s voice, that is to say, without the element of point-of-view (POV). Point-Of-View: Considering Fiction’s Most Important Element – Led by Anthony Grooms Jackson.Pat Conroy Literary Center – 905 Port Republic, Beaufort, SC 29902 He is currently the professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, and lives in Atlanta with his wife, Pamela B. As a writer, teacher, and arts administrator, he has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs. He is the author of Ice Poems and Trouble No More: Stories and is the winner of the 1996 Lillian Smith Award. is about a subject and a time we should never forget."Ībout the Author Anthony Grooms was educated at the College of William and Mary and at George Mason University. And older people too should be reminded, so that they'll never forget. "Too many of our younger generation know nothing about the struggle, the sacrifices, the dying of our people during those demonstrations of the fifties and the sixties. the emergence of a brave and promising talent."
Essence " Bombingham is a considerable achievement. "Grooms reimagines one of the most shattering episodes in American history, the infamous 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church." And for Walter, the war was just beginning. In the streets of Birmingham, ordinary citizens risked their lives to change America. From a tortured past lingered questions of faith, and a terrible family crisis found its climax as the city did the same. As the great movement swelled around them, the Burkes faced tremendous obstacles of their own. Their paper route never took them to the white areas of town. Walter and Lamar were always aware of the terms of segregation-the horrendous rules and stifling reality. The juxtaposition is so powerful-between war-torn Vietnam and terror-filled "Bombingham"-that he is drawn back to the summer that would see his transition from childish wonder at the world to his certain knowledge of his place in it.
But all he can think of is his childhood friend Lamar, the friend with whom he first experienced the fury of violence, on the streets of Birmingham, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. About the Book From the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama, "Bombingham" is the affecting story of a middle-class black family driven by its personal chaos.īook Synopsis In his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in a muddy rice paddy.
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