Capote’s Kansas
“A region is not a thing so much
as a cultural history, an ongoing
rhetorical and poetic construction”
—Douglass Reichert Powell,
Critical Regionalism: Connecting
Politics and Culture in the
American Landscape, 2007
Rather than rhetoric—
I use this abbreviated haiku
Form of poetic construction
I have yet to find any—
Capote-esque poetry version
Of the film or novel
What form would such—
A poetic construction take
To match non-fictionality?
That stark, stoic region—
That lonely American gothic
Moment on the High Plains?
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