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Author
Publisher
6-July Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
This is a poetry and essay collection with an Appalachian focus. Poems and essays are a slice of West Virginia history covering the time between World War II and the present. The effects of strip mining upon the mountain culture is an underlying theme. The importance of family in the Southern working classses is the subject of many poems. --from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In her fourth full-length book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots, while contemplating the knotty legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South. From a stunning double crown sonnet, to erasure poetry contained within DNA testing results, the poems in this collection are as wide-ranging in form as they are bountiful in wordplay and truth....
10) Mothman apologia
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 116
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Robert Wood Lynn's collection of poems explores the tensions of youth and the saturation points of knowledge: those moments when the acquisition of understanding overlaps with regret and becomes a desire to know less. Comprising poems of place set across the Virginias, this collection includes an episodic elegy exploring the opioid crisis in the Shenandoah Valley as well as a separate series of persona poems reimagining the Mothman (West Virginia's...
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