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Title

Her words : diverse voices in contemporary Appalachian women's poetry / edited by Felicia Mitchell.

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mitchell, Felicia, 1956-

Description

xxiv, 332 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
• Women > Appalachian Region, Southern > Poetry
• Women poets, American > Interviews
• Mountain life in literature
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Poets, American > 20th century > Interviews
• Appalachian Region, Southern > Poetry
• Appalachian Region, Southern > In literature
• American poetry > Appalachian Region, Southern > History and criticism
• Mountain life > Poetry
• Women and literature > Appalachian Region, Southern

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-308) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Felicia Mitchell -- Marginal -- Self-Portrait -- Maggie Anderson: Two Languages / Ellesa Clay High -- Comments / Maggie Anderson / Maggie Anderson -- An Indian Walks in Me -- Star Vision -- Marilou Awiakta: Poet for the People / Grace Toney Edwards / Marilou Awiakta -- Wildwood Flower -- Black Shawl -- Singing Our Hearts Away: The Poetry of Kathryn Stripling Byer / Ann F. Richman / Kathryn Stripling Byer -- Faith in Words -- People Piece #11 -- "Room Is Made for Whoever": Jo Carson and the Creation of Dialogical Community / Jennifer Mooney / Jo Carson -- Rapture -- On a Mill Worker in Rockwood -- A Level Gaze Trained at Life: The Poetry of Lisa Coffman / Patricia M. Gantt / Lisa Coffman -- Husband -- He Cut My Garden Down -- What Kind of Egg Are You? A Profile of Lou V. Crabtree / Judy K. Miller / Lou V. Crabtree -- And that's another thing -- Ceremony -- Coming Home to Affrilachia: The Poems of Doris Davenport / James A. Miller / Doris Davenport --
• Knoxville, Tennessee -- Train Rides -- And This Poem Recognizes That: Embracing Contrarieties in the Poetry of Nikki Giovanni / Virginia C. Fowler / Nikki Giovanni -- The Kink Fell Out of My Hair -- My People -- Witness, Testify, Recall: A Conversation with Patricia A. Johnson / Christina Springer / Patricia A. Johnson -- Zen Laundry -- First, Grief -- "The World So Vivid, Nothing Ends": A Conversation with Leatha Kendrick / Michael McFee / Leatha Kendrick -- Archaeology -- Papaw -- From Poetry to Picture Books: The Words of George Ella Lyon / Roberta T. Herrin / George Ella Lyon -- House Holder -- Stitch in Time -- Listening for the Hello of Home: A Conversation with Linda Parsons Marion / Jeff Daniel Marion / Linda Parsons Marion -- Deep Mining -- Viridian Days -- A Conversation with Irene McKinney / Jeff Mann / Irene McKinney -- Creed -- Faith -- "Slowly the Heart Revises": Lynn Powell's Old & New Testaments / John Lang / Lynn Powell -- Counting the Sums --
• Deathbed Dreams -- Staring at the Wind: A Conversation with Rita Sims Quillen / Don Johnson / Rita Sims Quillen -- Hole in the Sky -- Potted Ham and Crackers -- Rita Sizemore Riddle: A Coal Miner's Daughter on the National Poetry Scene / Parks Lanier / Rita Sizemore Riddle -- Brasstown Valley -- Complaint for Betelgeuse -- Stories of Land, Family, and God: The Poetry of Bettie Sellers / Robin O. Warren / Bettie Sellers -- Lament -- Appalachian Winter -- The Place of the Poet, the Poet's Place: An Interview with Betsy Sholl / Richard Jackson / Betsy Sholl -- The Vegetable Queen -- My Father. His Rabbits -- Stewardship and Sacrifice: The Land and People of Bennie Lee Sinclair's South Carolina / William B. Thesing and Gilbert Allen / Bennie Lee Sinclair -- Death Watch -- From Where I Am Now -- From Image to Epiphany: Barbara Smith's Poetic Moments / Felicia Mitchell.

ISBN

• 157233195X (cl. : alk. paper)
• 1572331968 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002002860

OCLC

• ocm49260783
• SCSB-4312584

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries