Red holler : contemporary Appalachian literature / editors, John Branscum, Wayne Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Branscum, John E., 1970- editor.

Thomas, Wayne, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Appalachian Region.

American literature.

Civilization.

Appalachian Region--Literary collections.

Appalachian Region.

American literature--21st century.

Appalachian Region--Civilization.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Contemporary Appalachian literature

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Sarabande Books, [2013]

Summary:

A diverse anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic essays by contemporary Appalachian writers. The editors have assembled a collection spanning ten years and the mountain range from Mississippi to New York, placing fresh new voices alongside widely known and celebrated authors. From Native American myth, African American urban legend, folk culture, and European ghost stories, this is an anthology of disenfranchised, yet robust peoples -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

That night / Karen Salyer McElmurray

Real life / Donald Ray Pollock

Very beautiful sad elegy for Bambi's dead mother / Sara Pritchard

Back of beyond / Ron Rash

Lakeside penitence / Alex Taylor

Lackland / Jacinda Townsend

Controlled burn / Charles Dodd White

Fixing things / Crystal Wilkinson

ORGO vs the FLATLANDERS / Pinckney Benedict

"Origins" from Southern Fried Masala / Ally Reeves

Desire / Dennis Covington

715 Willey Street / Jeff Mann

Vagina Dentata / Desirae Matherly

Woman with spirits / Jessie van Eerden

What the dead see ; Sundays ; Brief history of Melvin, my own personal bull / Nin Andrews

Southbound #71 / Makalani Bandele

Visions for the last night on earth ; In the city of fallen rebels / Brian Barker

Cleaning my father's house ; Heaven ; Children / Paula Bohince

Culture ; Provincial thought ; Geography of Yonder / Maurice Manning

Tobacco culture ; First hard freeze ; q & a ; Trash fish or nights back home / Davis McCombs

Carter scratch / R.T. Smith

My kinda woman ; Legend of Negro Mountain ; I would make a good owl / Bianca Spriggs

Salt Hill ; What we call this hunting ; Pretty Polly ; Whiskey pastoral / Jane Springer

Letter to be wrapped around a bottle of whiskey ; Walt Whitman in Alabama ; Knoxville girl / Jake Adam York.

Notes:

"The Linda Bruckheimer Prize in Kentucky literature."

ISBN:

9781936747665

1936747669

OCLC:

833145289