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Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia Volume 3
Contemporary Appalachia
Av Gilbert Allen, Maggie Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
380 kr
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“The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III, second edition, edited with passion and precision, in collaboration with Texas Review Press, transcends the stereotypes surrounding Appalachia, revealing the true diversity and complexity of Appalachia’s poetic voices. Commitment to showcasing the rich …
Wildwood Flower
Poems
Häftad, 1992
251 kr
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In Wildflower Flower, whose title derives from a traditional country song, Byer speaks through the fictional voice of a mountain woman named Alma, who lived in the Blue Ridge wilderness around the turn of the century. In narrative and lyric, Byer's poems sing a journey through solitude, capturing …
Black Shawl
Poems
Häftad, 1998
251 kr
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Black Shawl emanates from Kathryn Stripling Byer's fascination with female ballad singers in southern Appalachia, whose voices haunt the mountains still, and from the image of a black net or shawl being dragged over the ground, plumbing the depths, collecting bits and fragments of a woman's life. …
Catching Light
Poems
Häftad, 2002
251 kr
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In Catching Light, Kathryn Stripling Byer searches for the language of aging, for a way of confronting every woman's fear of looking in the mirror and seeing an old woman staring back. Inspired by a series of photographs entitled ""Evelyn""- which depicts a former artist's model in her declining …
Coming to Rest
Poems
Häftad, 2006
251 kr
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Kathryn Stripling Byer in these poems engages the contradictions inherent in the act of coming home. She explores the step-by-step leaving and returning- and finding ""home"" transformed because of the journey. Seamless lines of poetry weave together experiences as a daughter and a mother, the …
Descent
Poems
Häftad, 2012
251 kr
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Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often ""it's safer to stay blind.""Beginning with Morning Train, a response to Georgia blues musician Precious Bryant, Byer sings her way through …
