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Paradox Hill : from Appalachia to Lunar Shore : poems / by Louise McNeill ; edited and with an introduction by A.E. Stringer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNeill, Louise.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Appalachian Region--Poetry.
- Appalachian Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (110 p.)
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown, W. Va. : Vandalia Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With a new introduction by A.E. Stringer, this reprint of Louise McNeill's classic work remains as vivid as when it was first published. Containing poems from several decades of her career, Paradox Hill: From Appalachia to Lunar Shore is a must-have collection of a beloved poet's heartfelt exploration of her physical and cultural surroundings.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Front Cover Flap
- Contents
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Introduction
- Appalachia
- Stories at Evening
- The Roads
- Ballad of Pete Ellers
- Ballad of the Rest Home
- Ballad of New River
- Ballad of Miss Sally
- Scotch Irish
- Memoria
- Hill Daughter
- First Flight
- Limestone Cavern
- Sea and Fire
- Walk in Autumn
- The Sailor
- Garden Moment
- Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River
- Involved
- Blizzard
- Snow Angels
- Threnody for Old Orchards
- Fox and Geese
- Overheard on a Bus (Miner's Wife)
- Overheard on a Bus (Woman with a cleft palate)
- Mayapple Hill
- Heart-Wood
- Blue and Brown
- Gravity
- Pasture Line Fence
- The Old Woman
- Over the Mountain
- Scattered Leaves
- Reflection Without Color
- To the Boys in Freshman History
- The Dream
- Poet
- The Cave
- The Golden Garden of Cuzoo
- Eden Tree
- Warning
- Time-The Passage of Time
- Confession
- Boating Song
- The Invisible Line
- Aubade to Fear
- Minutiae
- Hill Song
- Moment Caught at Twilight by a West Virginia Barn
- Moment
- Quatrain
- Vietnam
- Journey
- Couplet
- Well Meaning
- The Torque
- Must Be
- Cold Comfort for the Population Explosion
- My Enemy
- Axiom
- Universal
- Riposte
- Couple
- Under Sea-The Unicorn
- To Lunar Shore
- Of Soothsayers
- Fireseed
- After the Blast
- Life-Force
- Potherbs
- The New Corbies
- Prophecy for the Atomic Age
- After Hearing a Lecture on Modern Physics
- The Martian Box
- The Lovers-Space Age
- Earth Day-1970
- White Dwarf Stars
- Space Ship
- Projection to a Space of Lower Order
- Lost in Orbit
- Chain Reaction
- Light
- Quadrille of the Naked Contours
- Earth Day 1971
- Letter Written at Twilight
- About the Authors
- Back Cover Flap
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-935978-17-9
- OCLC:
- 808346243
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