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Book Synopsis Southern Appalachian Poetry by : Marita Garin
Download or read book Southern Appalachian Poetry written by Marita Garin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia by : Rose McLarney
Download or read book A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia written by Rose McLarney and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Appalachian Elegy written by Bell Hooks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Southern Poetry Anthology: Contemporary Appalachia by : Stephen Gardner
Download or read book The Southern Poetry Anthology: Contemporary Appalachia written by Stephen Gardner and published by Southern Poetry Anthology. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every place has its own poetry. For some places, the poetry appears in the tones of voice between neighbors in the grocery store, or in the spirit people share when a high school football team brings them out of their houses on Friday evenings, or even through the sounds engines make as they idle in traffic on the road out of the city after a workday. The poetry of Appalachia sings in all those familiar ways, but also in the music of the particular poems collected in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Southern Appalachia. This anthology of contemporary poetry arrives from one of America's most vibrant literary communities, an area with a rich storytelling history and beautiful natural landscape, the often misunderstood Appalachian South. Readers familiar with writing from Appalachia will be pleased to see work from such favorites as Charles Wright, Robert Morgan, and Fred Chappell, yet will be intrigued by the already distinctive voices of emerging talents like Melissa Range and D. Antwan Stewart. This collection of poems is the only one of its kind, a snapshot album of a timeless place, as it is represented at the present moment. "For reasons that are not entirely clear, there has been an explosion of poetry in the Southern Appalachian region in recent years. Perhaps this creative surge has been inspired by the rapid changes in the region, as the vast hunting ranges of the Cherokees are crossed by superhighways, and golf courses, casinos, condominiums, and shopping malls spread into the shadows of the highest peaks. Or perhaps the poetry is a celebration of a region still discovering itself, its heritage and resources. What is clear is that much of the best poetry of our time is being written in or about the Southern mountains, with unprecedented diversity, artistry, freshness, and humanity. Here is a poetry of place and people, of history, sometimes sad, often comic, a poetry of haunting voices, vision, music and story. This anthology is a showcase of some of the best poetry we have, from the place the music comes from."--Robert Morgan
Download or read book Appalachian Poet written by Bertie Cutlip and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Old Wounds, New Words by : Bob Henry Baber
Download or read book Old Wounds, New Words written by Bob Henry Baber and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems, written in the 1970s and 1980s, from the works of ninety poets from six states in the southern Appalachian region.
Book Synopsis Writing Appalachia by : Katherine Ledford
Download or read book Writing Appalachia written by Katherine Ledford and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding Appalachia, the region has nurtured and inspired some of the nation's finest writers. Featuring dozens of authors born into or adopted by the region over the past two centuries, Writing Appalachia showcases for the first time the nuances and contradictions that place Appalachia at the heart of American history. This comprehensive anthology covers an exceedingly diverse range of subjects, genres, and time periods, beginning with early Native American oral traditions and concluding with twenty-first-century writers such as Wendell Berry, bell hooks, Silas House, Barbara Kingsolver, and Frank X Walker. Slave narratives, local color writing, folklore, work songs, modernist prose—each piece explores unique Appalachian struggles, questions, and values. The collection also celebrates the significant contributions of women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community to the region's history and culture. Alongside Southern and Central Appalachian voices, the anthology features northern authors and selections that reflect the urban characteristics of the region. As one text gives way to the next, a more complete picture of Appalachia emerges—a landscape of contrasting visions and possibilities.
Book Synopsis Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets by : Jonathan Williams
Download or read book Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets written by Jonathan Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Williams’s poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic. This new, much enlarged edition of Blues and Roots displays all of the above. Williams has tramped the Appalachian Trail for decades, botanizing, jotting down specimens of authentic American speech, graffiti, superstitions, and nostrums—always curious, alert, and affectionately attentive. Blues and Roots focuses on the linguistic horizon of Appalachia in lyrics of wonder and light, of wit and comic incongruity, in found poems of the speech of his mountain neighbors. Publishers Weekly said of the earlier edition, “One of the most beautiful and evocative tributes to the Appalachians and its people yet published.” Blues and Roots is a fine celebration; Wiliams is a joyful ringmaster.
Book Synopsis Blues & Roots, Rue & Bluets by : Jonathan Williams
Download or read book Blues & Roots, Rue & Bluets written by Jonathan Williams and published by [Durham, N.C.] : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of Blues and Roots / Rue and Bluets make up an unofficial oral history in verse of the Southern Appalachian folk often vilified and dismissed as hillbillies. Most of these poems are composed in a pungent dialect, as if Huck Finn had settled in the Blue Ridge or Smoky Mountains and continued to view the world's propensity for stupidity and meanness with the humorist's clear-eyed and trenchant truth-telling.
Book Synopsis A Walk to the Spring House by : Sue Dunlap
Download or read book A Walk to the Spring House written by Sue Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems by Sue Weaver Dunlap in A Walk to the Spring House capture memories and relics of the poet's repository of experiences in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. These old mountains and her landscape shape the sections of the book, mountains that ultimately "brace" and "root" the poet who celebrates that she "come[s]" from old. Not only does the poet "pause to praise / the storytellers" and lay claim to her "rooted inheritance," she also pays homage to her own "call to love." The poet's landscape dwells deep in the water, the mines, the mountain farm, the family, the mill town, the hollers, the ancestors-Appalachian humankind and geography-its unique voice and place. These poems stitch together love, hurt, history, beliefs, and landscape, an amazing quilt where "[she] whisper[s] the old sweet of piney roses by the door."
Book Synopsis Stonepile Writers' Anthology, Volume III by : April Loebick
Download or read book Stonepile Writers' Anthology, Volume III written by April Loebick and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis George Scarbrough, Appalachian Poet by : Randy Mackin
Download or read book George Scarbrough, Appalachian Poet written by Randy Mackin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Forage written by Rose McLarney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Weatherford Award for Best Poetry Book about Appalachia A poet acclaimed for "uncompromising, honest poems that sound like no one else" (The Rumpus) now offers considerations of the natural world and humans' place within it in ecopoetry of both ambitious reach and elegant refinement Rose McLarney has won attention as a poet of impressive insight, craft, and a "constantly questioning and enlarging vision" (Andrew Hudgins). In her third collection, Forage, she continues to weave together themes she loves: home, heritage, the South, animals, water, the environment. These intricately sequenced poems take up everything from animals' symbolic roles in art and as indicators of ecological change to how water can represent a large, troubled system or the exceptions of smaller, purer tributaries. At the confluence of these poems is a social commentary that goes beyond lamenting environmental degradation and disaster to record--and augment--the beauty of the world in which we live.
Book Synopsis All the Great Territories by : Matthew Austin Wimberley
Download or read book All the Great Territories written by Matthew Austin Wimberley and published by Crab Orchard Poetry. This book was released on 2020 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An elegy to a father, Matthew Wimberley's "All the Great Territories" explores both the relationship between a child and a parent and the landscape of southern Appalachia"--
Book Synopsis Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, Stories, Essays and Poems by the Southern Appalachian Mountains by : North Carolina Writers' Network. Western Chapter
Download or read book Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, Stories, Essays and Poems by the Southern Appalachian Mountains written by North Carolina Writers' Network. Western Chapter and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis All There is to Keep by : Rita Sizemore Riddle
Download or read book All There is to Keep written by Rita Sizemore Riddle and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All There Is to Keep by Rita Sizemore Riddle is a book of poetry. Many of the poems are centered in the Southern Appalachian Region. The collection was edited by Jim Minick, after Riddle's death in 2006.
Download or read book The Upstate written by Lindsay Turner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis. Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne’s lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Turner’s The Upstate is a book about southern Appalachia in a contemporary moment of change and development. Layering a personal lyric voice with a broader awareness of labor issues and political and ecological crises, The Upstate redefines a regional poetics as one attuned to national and global systems. These poems observe and emote, mourning acts of devastation and raging in their own quiet way against their continuation. The poems in The Upstate arise from moments of darkness and desperation, mobilizing a critical intelligence against the status quo of place and history, all while fiercely upholding belief in the role of poetry to affect these conditions. Turner’s poems weave spells around beloved places and people, yearning to shield them from destruction and to profess faith in the delicate beauties of the world at hand.
