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Author: Bell Hooks
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012-08-16
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0813136695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of poems centered around life in Appalachia addresses topics ranging from the marginalization of the region's people to the environmental degradation it has endured throughout history.
Author: Bertie Cutlip
Publisher:
Published: 2023-05
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A writer or ethnologist might dream of discovering a hidden poet who gives impromptu performances outside a country store or to visitors at her mobile home in a hollow of the West Virginia mountains. Bertie Jane Cutlip (1924 - 2021) composed over 100 poems reflecting on her life in central Appalachia and celebrating the beauty of her home state. Her works express hope and faith amid life's trials, sprinkled with humor. Known only in and around her county, this anthology brings her to wider notice. Sections: HOME; COUNTRY LIFE; FAMILY & FRIENDS; PETS & CRITTERS; SEASONS; MEMORIES; HEART & SOUL
Author: Marita Garin
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2008-06-17
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The poems in this anthology hold true to mountain cultures strong story telling tradition, relating both the toil and the serenity of life lived on hill farms, in coal mining camps, and in small rural towns.
Author: Bianca Lynne Spriggs
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2018-02-23
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0813175240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Appalachian region stretches from Mississippi to New York, encompassing rural areas as well as cities from Birmingham to Pittsburgh. Though Appalachia's people are as diverse as its terrain, few other regions in America are as burdened with stereotypes. Author Frank X Walker coined the term "Affrilachia" to give identity and voice to people of African descent from this region and to highlight Appalachia's multicultural identity. This act inspired a group of gifted artists, the Affrilachian Poets, to begin working together and using their writing to defy persistent stereotypes of Appalachia as a racially and culturally homogenized region. After years of growth, honors, and accomplishments, the group is acknowledging its silver anniversary with Black Bone. Edited by two newer members of the Affrilachian Poets, Bianca Lynne Spriggs and Jeremy Paden, Black Bone is a beautiful collection of both new and classic work and features submissions from Frank X Walker, Nikky Finney, Gerald Coleman, Crystal Wilkinson, Kelly Norman Ellis, and many others. This illuminating and powerful collection is a testament to a groundbreaking group and its enduring legacy.
Author: Marc Harshman
Publisher:
Published: 2012-11-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781933964638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The poetry of Marc Harshman is deeply anchored in the earth, the elements of light and water, of all life closely observed. Plants and animals and human beings are equally treasured. Harshman�s deep spirituality also permeates his poetry. This new volume by West Virginia�s Poet Laureate is a joy. - Denise Giardina, author of Storming Heaven
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2014-07-29
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1466877464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in Country Music, the second in The World of the Ten Thousand Things, and the third began with Chickamauga and continued with Black Zodiac. Appalachia is the last book in the final trilogy of this pathbreaking and majestic series. If Country Music traced "Wright's journey from the soil to the stars" and The World of the Ten Thousand Things "lovingly detailed" our world and made "a visionary map of the world beyond" (James Longenbach, The Nation), this final book in Wright's great work reveals a master's confrontation with his own mortality and his stunning ability to discover transcendence in the most beautifully ordinary of landscapes.
Author: Rose McLarney
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0820356247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth. A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia—a hybrid literary and natural history anthology—showcases sixty of the many species indigenous to the region. Ecologically, culturally, and artistically, Southern Appalachia is rich in paradox and stereotype-defying complexity. Its species range from the iconic and inveterate—such as the speckled trout, pileated woodpecker, copperhead, and black bear—to the elusive and endangered—such as the American chestnut, Carolina gorge moss, chucky madtom, and lampshade spider. The anthology brings together art and science to help the reader experience this immense ecological wealth. Stunning images by seven Southern Appalachian artists and conversationally written natural history information complement contemporary poems from writers such as Ellen Bryant Voigt, Wendell Berry, Janisse Ray, Sean Hill, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Deborah A. Miranda, Ron Rash, and Mary Oliver. Their insights illuminate the wonders of the mountain South, fostering intimate connections. The guide is an invitation to get to know Appalachia in the broadest, most poetic sense.
Author: Randy Mackin
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011-09-29
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0786486279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A writer’s writer, East Tennessee poet and novelist George Scarbrough enjoyed a career that spanned eight decades and included numerous awards. This biography makes use of Scarbrough’s personal journals to tie his literature to his life and presents previously unpublished poetry, letters, and prose pieces. Somewhat overlooked during his lifetime, he is, as this book demonstrates, among the best poets of the 20th century.
Author: Bernard Clay
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2021-08-20
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 173522426X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Autobiographical poetry from one of Kentucky’s rising Affrilachian literary stars. Bernard Clay’s autobiographical poetry debut, English Lit, juxtaposes the roots of Black male identity against an urban and rural Kentucky landscape. Hailed as one of the most authentic voices of his generation, Clay artfully renders coming-of-age in the predominately Black West End of Louisville, Kentucky. Balancing the spirited grit of a farmer and the careful lyricism of a poet, English Lit is a triumph of new Affrilachian—African American and Appalachian—literature.
Author: Frank X. Walker
Publisher: Old Cove Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780967542409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collects poems about the African American experience in such rural areas as the Appalachian region.
