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The late Nashville poet Diann Blakely died in 2014 of a chronic lung disorder, a few years short of her sixtieth birthday. A lifelong rebel and pioneer, Blakely carved out for herself a niche only she was equipped to occupy. Her disappearance from the literary scene at a moment when she should have had a couple of decades of productive time to look forward to is tragic.

The loss to Southern letters of this passionate and daring poet is immense.

Blakely was an Alabama native, a daughter of the traditional South who challenged her heritage in powerful ways.

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Significantly, she was one of the first female students at the University of the South at Sewanee, home to The Sewanee Review and previously an all-male bastion not only of maleness but also of Southern gentility. Sewanee’s literary values at the time had their roots in the Confederacy—the university was the proud bailiwick of Fugitives and Agrarians such as Allen Tate and Andrew Lytle.

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