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The Logan topographies : poems / Alena Hairston.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.A54525 L64 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hairston, Alena.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal miners.
- Logan County (W. Va.)--Poetry.
- Logan County (W. Va.).
- Coal miners--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 57 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Persea Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- A unique collection that delves deep into the consciousness of a West Virginian coal mining community. This extraordinary debut is an inhabiting of the town of Logan, West Virginia. In four gorgeous lyric sequences, Alena Hairston conducts the voices of this population of miners and their kin, poignantly rendering their destitution, their heartbreak, and their incongruous strength and spirit. Winner of Persea's inaugural Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize, a first-book award for American women poets.
- Notes:
- "A Karen and Michael Braziller book."
- "Winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize."
- ISBN:
- 9780892553297
- 0892553294
- OCLC:
- 71779043
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