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Listen here : women writing in Appalachia / edited by Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson.

Van Pelt Library PS554 .L57 2003
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Ballard, Sandra L.
Hudson, Patricia L.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American literature--Appalachian Region, Southern.
American literature.
Women--Appalachian Region, Southern--Literary collections.
Women.
Women and literature--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Women and literature.
Appalachian Region, Southern--Literary collections.
Appalachian Region, Southern.
Southern Appalachian Region.
American literature--Women authors.
Genre:
Literary collections.
Literature.
Physical Description:
xxviii, 673 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2003]
Summary:
This landmark anthology brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, Harriette Simpson Amow, Annie Dillard, Nikki Giovanni, Sharyn McCrumb, Lee Smith, and George Ella Lyon. From regional favorites to national bestsellers, this unprecedented gathering of Appalachian voices displays the remarkable talent of the region's women writers who have made their mark at home and across the globe.
Contents:
Sheila Kay Adams 6
The Easter Frock, from Come Go Home With Me 8
/ Dorothy Allison 10
from Bastard Out of Carolina 12
/ Lisa Alther 17
from Five Minutes in Heaven 19
/ Maggie Anderson 22
Ontological 24
Long Story 25
Sonnet for Her Labor 27
A Place with Promise 28
/ Anne W. Armstrong 30
from This Day and Time 32
/ Harriette Simpson Arnow 36
from Hunter's Horn 38
from Seedtime on the Cumberland 40
The First Ride 42
/ Sylvia Trent Auxier 47
Neighbors 49
When Grandmother Wept 49
Cicada's Song 50
Someday in a Wood 51
The Stair 51
/ Marilou Awiakta 52
Women Die Like Trees 54
When Earth Becomes an "It" 54
Anorexia Bulimia Speaks from the Grave 55
A Time to Reweave, from Selu 56
A Time to Study Law, from Selu 57
Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise 61
/ Artie Ann Bates 62
Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift 64
/ Frances Courtenay Baylor 69
from Behind the Blue Ridge 71
/ Sue Ellen Bridgers 72
from Sara Will 74
/ Florence Cope Bush 77
from Dorie: Woman of the Mountains 79
/ Kathryn Stripling Byer 81
Wildwood Flower 83
Bittersweet 84
Lineage 84
Easter 86
Mountain Time 87
/ Candie Carawan 89
from Sing for Freedom 91
/ Jo Carson 95
40, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet 97
49, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet 98
from Maybe, The Last of the 'Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories 99
from Daytrips 102
/ Rebecca Caudill 106
from My Appalachia 108
/ Lillie D. Chaffin 112
Second Christmas 114
Spending the Night 114
Discipline 115
The Glad Gardener 116
/ Loletta Clouse 117
from Wilder 119
/ Ann Cobb 123
The Boy 124
Hospitality 125
The Widow Man 125
Kivers 126
/ Lisa Coffman 128
In Envy of Migration 130
About the Pelvis 133
Tick 134
/ Amy Tipton Cortner 136
The Hillbilly Vampire 138
The Vampire Ethnographer 139
No Minority 140
/ Lou V.P. Crabtree 141
Homer-Snake, from Sweet Hollow 143
Sister 150
Sports Widow 151
/ Olive Tilford Dargan [Fielding Burke] 152
from Call Home the Heart 154
/ Doris Davenport 156
Country 158
For Dr. Josefina Garcia & the "Tissue Committee" 159
Zora neale 161
/ Rebecca Harding Davis 162
from Life in the Iron Mills 164
/ Ann Deagon 168
Giving the Sun 170
The Hole 170
Twins 171
Poetics South 172
In a Time of Drought 173
Broadside 173
/ Angelyn DeBord 174
from Praise House 176
/ Annie Dillard 179
from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 181
/ Hilda Downer 183
This is what history is 185
A woman is segmented as an ant 185
Every open space fills with sky 186
/ Muriel Miller Dressler 188
Appalachia 190
Elegy For Jody 191
/ Will Allen Dromgoole 192
from Fiddling His Way to Fame, The Heart of Old Hickory 194
/ Wilma Dykeman 197
from Return the Innocent Earth 199
from The French Broad 204
/ Sarah Barnwell Elliott 208
from The Durket Sperret 210
/ Sidney Saylor Farr 213
from More than Moonshine 215
Granny Brock 217
Mountains Fill Up the Night 218
Appalachia, Where are your Hills? 219
/ Nikky Finney 220
from Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves, Heartwood 222
Irons At Her Feet 225
/ Lucy Furman 227
from Sight to the Blind 229
/ Denise Giardina 231
from Storming Heaven 234
from The Unquiet Earth 236
/ Janice Holt Giles 240
from Hannah Fowler 242
/ Nikki Giovanni 245
Griots, from Racism 101 247
Knoxville, Tennessee 249
Revolutionary Dreams 250
A Poem Off Center 250
/ Gail Godwin 252
from A Southern Family 254
/ Connie Jordan Green 257
from The War at Home 259
/ Virginia Hamilton 262
from M.C. Higgins the Great 264
/ Pauletta Hansel 267
Writing Lessons (I.) 269
She 270
Writing Lessons (II.) 271
To her mother, lying in state 272
/ Corra Harris 274
from A Circuit Rider's Wife 276
/ Mildred Haun 277
from The Hawk's Done Gone 279
/ Ellesa Clay High 282
from Past Titan Rock 284
/ Mary Bozeman Hodges 287
Ms. Ida Mae, from Tough Customers and Other Stories 289
/ Gloria Houston 292
from My Great-Aunt Arizona 294
/ Lee Howard 298
Momma's Letter 299
The Last Unmined Vein 300
/ Mary Johnston 303
from The Long Roll 305
/ Mary Harris "Mother" Jones 307
from The Autobiography of Mother Jones 309
/ Jane Wilson Joyce 311
Life and Art in East Tennessee 312
Hooked Album Quilt, 1870 313
/ May Justus 315
Weather Rhymes 317
/ Edith Summers Kelley 319
from Weeds 321
/ Leatha Kendrick 323
from No Place Like Home 325
The Familiar Level 327
Refusing a Spinal 328
/ Barbara Kingsolver 330
from The Bean Trees 332
from Prodigal Summer 336
/ Lisa Koger 338
from Extended Learning, Farlanburg Stories 340
/ Catherine Landis 346
from Some Days There's Pie 348
/ Lily May Ledford 353
from Coon Creek Girl 355
/ Grace Lumpkin 358
from To Make My Bread 360
/ George Ella Lyon 364
from With A Hammer for My Heart 366
Where I'm From 370
Rings 371
Salvation 372
Growing Light 373
/ Linda Parsons Marion 374
Mulberries 376
To My Daughter Going Off to College 377
Welcome to the Other Side 379
Good Luck Charm 380
/ Catherine Marshall 381
from Christy 383
/ Belinda Ann Mason 386
The Gifts of the Spirit 388
/ Kathy L. May 391
Rain 392
Saved 393
Ascension 394
/ Truda Williams McCoy 396
from The McCoys 397
/ Sharyn McCrumb 400
from The Songcatcher 402
/ Jeanne McDonald 407
from Up the Hill toward Home 409
/ Karen Salyer McElmurray 413
from Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey 415
/ Llewellyn McKernan 419
Many Waters 421
For My Grandmother Who Knows How 423
The Hollow 424
Mother Milking 425
Music 426
/ Irene McKinney 428
Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report 430
Deep Mining 431
Sunday Morning, 1950 432
The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson 433
Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia 434
/ Louise McNeill 435
The Other Woman 437
Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child) 437
Hill Daughter 438
Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River 439
from The Milkweed Ladies 440
/ Jane Merchant 442
Lanterns and Lamps 443
First Plowing in the Hills 444
/ Emma Bell Miles 445
from The Spirit of the Mountains 447
/ Heather Ross Miller 449
from The Edge of the Woods 451
Seventh Grades 453
Breadstuff 454
/ Janice Townley Moore 455
All Those Nights 456
Under The Earth 457
The Way Back 458
/ MariJo Moore 459
Story is a Woman 461
Solidarity in the Night 462
Ahlawe Usv' Tsigesvgi 463
Rumors, from Red Woman With Backward Eyes 464
/ Mary Noailles Murfree 468
from In the Tennessee Mountains 470
/ Elaine Fowler Palencia 472
Briers, from Brier Country: Stories from the Blue Valley 474
/ Jayne Anne Phillips 478
from Machine Dreams 480
from Motherkind 484
/ Lynn Powell 487
Nativity 489
Echocardiogram 490
The Calling 492
/ Barbara Presnell 494
In the Kitchen We String Beans 496
Clarissa and the Second Coming 497
When You Lose a Child 498
Snake Dreams 500
/ Rita Sims Quillen 501
July 18, 1966 503
Woman Writer 504
I Used To Be A Teacup 505
Discovered 506
How Do You Remember Him? 507
/ Jean Ritchie 508
from Singing Family of the Cumberlands 510
/ Elizabeth Madox Roberts 513
from The Time of Man 515
/ Anne Newport Royall 517
from Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States 519
/ Cynthia Rylant 521
from Missing May 523
/ Bettie Sellers 526
Pink 528
Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair 529
Liza's Monday 530
The Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk 531
All On A Summer's Afternoon 532
Legacy For Rachel 533
/ Mary Lee Settle 534
from Addie 536
from The Killing Ground 539
/ Anne Shelby 543
Why I Write 545
Fat Sestina 546
Spellcheck 548
/ Muriel Earley Sheppard 549
from Cabins in the Laurel 551
/ Betsy Sholl 554
Appalachian Winter 556
/ Ellen Harvey Showell 560
from Our Mountain 562
/ Bennie Lee Sinclair 565
Homecoming 567
Kathy 567
My Father. His Rabbits 568
Backwoods Haiku 569
/ Verna Mae Slone 570
from What My Heart Wants to Tell 572
/ Barbara Smith 574
Bad News 576
And This Is The Way To Be Poor 577
The Language of Poetry 578
/ Effie Waller Smith 579
Memories of Home 581
/ Lee Smith 583
from Saving Grace 585
/ Jane Stuart 591
Cycles from Transparencies 593
Where Stuarts Lie 594
Roots 594
Composition 595
/ Adriana Trigiani 596
from Big Stone Gap 598
/ Dana Wildsmith 602
Economy 603
New Poor 603
A Dry Spring 604
Our Bodies Remember 605
Force 607
/ Sylvia Wilkinson 608
from Shadow of the Mountain 610
/ Meredith Sue Willis 613
My Boy Elroy, from In the Mountains of America 615
/ Leigh Allison Wilson 624
from The Raising, From the Bottom Up 625
/ Mary Elizabeth Witherspoon 628
from The Morning Cool 630
More Women Writing in Appalachia 635.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-651) and index.
ISBN:
081312283X
OCLC:
52458796

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