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Overview
In this incandescent, profound, and accessible collection, beloved and award-winning poet, novelist, and short-story writer Ron Rash vividly channels the rhythms of life in Appalachia, deftly capturing the panoply of individuals who are its heart and soul—men and women inured to misfortune and hard times yet defined by tremendous fortitude, resilience, and a fierce sense of community.
In precise, supple language that swerves from the stark to the luminous, Rash richly describes the splendor of the natural landscape and poignantly renders the lives of those dependent on its bounty—in cotton mills and tobacco fields, farmlands and forests. The haunting memories and shared histories of these people—their rituals and traditions—animate this land, and are celebrated in Rash’s crystalline, intensely imagined verse.
With an eye for the surprising and vivid detail, Ron Rash powerfully captures the sorrows and exaltations of this wondrous world he knows intimately. Illuminating and indelible, Poems demonstrates his rich talents and confirms his legacy as a standard-bearer for the literature of the American South.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780062435521 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 02/21/2017 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Sales rank: | 1,136,775 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Resolution 1
Raising the Dead
Last Service 5
Under Jocassee 6
Taking Down the Lines 8
Fall Creek 9
Shee-Show 10
Deep Water 11
In Dismal Gorge 12
Black-Eyed Susans 13
Whippoorwill 16
Shelton Laurel 17
Wolf Laurel 19
Speckled Trout 20
In the Barn 21
Barn Burning: 1967 22
Work, for the Night Is Coming 23
The Debt 24
Watauga County: 1974 25
Burning the Field 26
At Reid Hartley's Junkyard 27
Spear Point 28
Kephart in the Smokies 29
Barbed Wire 30
The Search 31
Brightleaf 33
At Leicester Cemetery 34
Madison County, June 1999 35
The Wolves in the Asheville Zoo 37
The Watch 38
Bartram Leaves Jocassee 39
Carolina Parakeet 40
The Vanquished 41
A Homestead on the Horsepasture 42
Bottomland 43
Tremor 44
Analepsis 45
The Day the Gates Closed 46
Beyond the Dock 47
The Men Who Raised the Dead 49
Among the Believers
On the Border 53
Plowing on Moonlight 54
The Corpse Bird 55
Madison County: 1864 56
On the Watauga 57
Before 58
The Exchange 59
A Preacher Who Takes Up Serpents Laments the Presence of Skeptics in His Church 61
The Afflicted 63
The Preacher Is Called to Testify for the Accused 64
Signs 67
Animal Hides 68
The Ascent 69
From The Mabinogion 70
In a Springhouse at Night 71
Blue River 72
Spring Lizards 73
Watershed 74
Ginseng 75
Lasting Water 76
Passage 77
Barn Loft: 1959 78
The Fox 79
August 1959: Morning Service 80
Abandoned Homestead in Watauga County 82
Among the Believers 83
Good Friday 1995, Driving Westward 84
Eureka Mill
Invocation 87
Eureka 89
In a Dry Time 90
Mill Village 91
Low Water 92
Spring Fever 94
Accident 95
The Sweeper 96
The Famous Photographer Visits Eureka 97
Bearings 98
Jokes 100
The Stretch-Out 101
Flying Squadron 102
The Ballad of Ella Mae Wiggins 103
1934 104
Black and White 105
Boundaries 106
Revenant 107
Brown Lung 108
Plane Crash 109
Listening to WBT 110
Last Interview 111
First Shift 113
Photograph of My Parents Outside Eureka Cotton Mill. Dated June 1950 114
July 1949 115
Waking
First Memory 119
The Trout in the Springhouse 120
Milking Traces 121
Sleepwalking 122
Junk Car in Snow 123
Time Flow 124
Watauga County: 1959 125
Bonding Fire 126
Pocketknives 128
Shadetree 130
Car Tags 131
Spillcorn 132
Emrys 133
Mirror 134
Woman Among Lightning: Catawba County Fair, 1962 135
Bloodroot 136
The Reaping 138
Elegy for Merle Watson 139
White Wings 140
Resonance 141
Three A.M. and the Stars Were Out 142
Genealogy 145
The Code 146
The Crossing 147
The Pact 149
Good Friday 2006: Shelton Laurel 150
Reading the Leaves 151
Boy in a Boxcar 152
Pentecost 153
Watauga County: 1962 154
Price Lake 155
New Poems
Wet Moon 159
Accent 160
The Country Singer Explains Her Muse 161
Weasel 162
Tracks 163
Moody Spring 164
The Call 165
Direction 166
Acknowledgments 167