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- ISBN: 9780967605111 | 0967605113
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/1/2000
This stunning volume gathers 134 poets writing within a fifty-year timespan on subjects as varied as Japanese flower gardening, hog-butchering, mother-daughter relations, and selling the farm. It went into its third printing in less than a year and has been used as atext in seven colleges and universities.
"A landmark in West Virginia literaryhistory (and) also a model of poetic celebration." -- Gordon Simmons, Coordinator, Artists Services, West Virginia Cultural Center, Charleston, WV
"An ode to WestVirginia. . . . A wealth of knowledge, compassion, and inspiration." -- Charleston (WV) Gazette-Mail
"Clear and bright, enough light to read by. This is what we've been waiting for." -- Grace Cavalieri, Producer, "The Poet and the Poem" on National Public Radio