Hill daughter : new & selected poems / Louise McNeill ; edited and with an introduction by Maggie Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNeill, Louise, author.

Contributor:

Anderson, Maggie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountain life--Poetry.

Mountain life.

West Virginia--Poetry.

West Virginia.

Genre:

Poetry

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1991]

Summary:

Introduction by Maggie AndersonMusically complex and intellectually sophisticated, Louise McNeill's imagery and rhythms have their deepest sources in the West Virginia mountains where she was born in 1911 on a farm that has been in her family for nine generations. These are rooted poems, passionately concerned with stewardship of the land and with the various destructions of land and people that often come masked as "progress."In colloquial, rural, and sometimes macabre imagery, Louise McNeill documents the effects of the change from a farm to an industrial economy on the West Virginia mountain people. She writes of the earliest white settlements on the western side of the Alleghenies and of the people who remained there through the coming of the roads, the timber and coal industries, and the several wars of this century.The reappearance of Louise McNeill's long out-of-print poems will be cause for celebration for readers familiar with her work. Those reading it for the first time will discover musical, serious, idiosyncratic, and startling poems that define the Appalachian experience.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Editor's Note

Hill Daughter

Wire Brier

Gauley Mountain

The Horsemen

Time is Our House

Author's Notes

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140).

ISBN:

9780822980698

082298069X

OCLC:

891395370