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We believe writing matters and should be shared.Spirit Poemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09793224929375745298noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34359155.post-78114588788115373872023-08-19T07:35:00.003-07:002023-08-19T07:38:28.935-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> SALUTE TO TIMOTHY RUSSELL</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">IN HIS OHIO VALLEY</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sept. 9th 6 pm - 8 pm</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Steubenville, Ohio</b></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRmxk8DNa75e41jWBIXu5iEtvuYKns6LJxu4BXb1wJsWMOwwzSZkAp7aMdWL-mVvv_mLhefw-tq5wFYMLTe8hfmRZ8_HNbFbmI-Ymjq7vA1fxG_WPq2ryNrLJOU4Ar7zKyMSjvrMlCwZ34IyCycr_kQwZJPCuuXK3Dy7WJOETLUMMNy4FC69gzJA/s586/coffeehouseTimSteubenville%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="450" height="654" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRmxk8DNa75e41jWBIXu5iEtvuYKns6LJxu4BXb1wJsWMOwwzSZkAp7aMdWL-mVvv_mLhefw-tq5wFYMLTe8hfmRZ8_HNbFbmI-Ymjq7vA1fxG_WPq2ryNrLJOU4Ar7zKyMSjvrMlCwZ34IyCycr_kQwZJPCuuXK3Dy7WJOETLUMMNy4FC69gzJA/w502-h654/coffeehouseTimSteubenville%20copy.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Spirit Poemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09793224929375745298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34359155.post-9620530975576424302022-01-29T09:17:00.003-08:002022-01-29T09:19:28.611-08:00<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgExp9ZmLqrddLVnrja2ntyRG_o2AwMOc1oqyNW-SfHE7Q72ampg3x1CthPbGogbCCb0Y8W7aJPh5bdKU_ofeYzwtbSCkRDJyqn-itBNaYGbCc_CPX5rJ6SZIY-CgO5_zZIrsXBrwtQs91FtpW3Yv12oME1Z-DJuDEO8to5bIzItXfpRe8Mw1g=s2662" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1878" data-original-width="2662" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgExp9ZmLqrddLVnrja2ntyRG_o2AwMOc1oqyNW-SfHE7Q72ampg3x1CthPbGogbCCb0Y8W7aJPh5bdKU_ofeYzwtbSCkRDJyqn-itBNaYGbCc_CPX5rJ6SZIY-CgO5_zZIrsXBrwtQs91FtpW3Yv12oME1Z-DJuDEO8to5bIzItXfpRe8Mw1g=w370-h261" width="370" /></a></div><br /><h1 style="text-align: center;"><br /></h1></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><h1 style="text-align: center;">There can be no reverence for the timeless without tenderness for each moment beading the rosary of our mortal lives, and there is no place where we contact this more clearly than in our encounters with nature, be it in the majesty of a solar eclipse or in the miniature of a flowerpot. “The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end,” the filmmaker and activist Derek Jarman wrote shortly after his HIV diagnosis and his father’s death as he began growing through grief amid the beauty of flowers. </h1></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></h1></blockquote></blockquote>Spirit Poemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09793224929375745298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34359155.post-23864152327106366532019-09-22T10:35:00.004-07:002019-09-22T10:53:37.778-07:00Spirit Poems<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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Here you will find poems with a spiritual base--</h3>
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My own and those voices of others that center and open us.</h3>
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First Series</div>
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Along the Road</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking out over Lake Waters<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">we witness
waves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">rising and
folding again and again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">yet know it is wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">that moves the
waters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Golden leaves stripped
by wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">fall across the
road,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">revealing those
hidden arms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">which hold them.
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wild geese over
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">wing North,
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">linking unseen webs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">of memory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Our acts of caring
for others<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">reveal God’s unseen
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<b><span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There by the Road<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">flesh
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">melt
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">again
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">breath
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Clouds
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">sun
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">our
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Soft Darkness Just Before
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">while night holds us
still,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">we stumble around
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">yet look out past
curtain lace <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">at stars shining
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In faith near blind we
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<span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle">A Flutter of Birds Passing Through Heaven: </span></h1>
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<span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle">A Tribute to Robert Sund</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The poet and artist Robert Sund is a Pacific Northwest legend. This book
is an inspired biography comprised of stories, memories, poetry,
photography and artwork by those who knew him. The book is also filled
with previously unpublished and uncollected works by Sund. A tribute to a
life committed to poetry, calligraphy, art and friendship with writers such as William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, and a host of Pacific Northwest poets and artists. </span><br />
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What
editors Allen Frost and Paul Piper have done is assemble a rich
collection of Sund’s own writing and honest recollections and tributes
to the man and his work. These include some of the best writers from
that era or area: Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder,
Robert Bly, as well as his more intimate friends and fellow artists:
Charlie Craft, Tim McNulty, Arjuna (Diane) Barton, Joseph Stroud,
Frances McCue, and about 40 more.<br />
The book is beautifully laid out and lush with graphic images of the
poet and friends, but also with copies of some of the correspondence and
posters of events. Sund lived extremely humbly in a fisherman’s shack,
often off of the good will of friends. Each element fills in a story
that the reader constructs without a narrator’s bias. <br />
- See more at: http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/flutter-birds#sthash.N4mJSKa7.dpuf</div>
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<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
What
editors Allen Frost and Paul Piper have done is assemble a rich
collection of Sund’s own writing and honest recollections and tributes
to the man and his work. These include some of the best writers from
that era or area: Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder,
Robert Bly, as well as his more intimate friends and fellow artists:
Charlie Craft, Tim McNulty, Arjuna (Diane) Barton, Joseph Stroud,
Frances McCue, and about 40 more.<br />
The book is beautifully laid out and lush with graphic images of the
poet and friends, but also with copies of some of the correspondence and
posters of events. Sund lived extremely humbly in a fisherman’s shack,
often off of the good will of friends. Each element fills in a story
that the reader constructs without a narrator’s bias. <br />
- See more at: http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/flutter-birds#sthash.N4mJSKa7.dpuf</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
What
editors Allen Frost and Paul Piper have done is assemble a rich
collection of Sund’s own writing and honest recollections and tributes
to the man and his work. These include some of the best writers from
that era or area: Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder,
Robert Bly, as well as his more intimate friends and fellow artists:
Charlie Craft, Tim McNulty, Arjuna (Diane) Barton, Joseph Stroud,
Frances McCue, and about 40 more.<br />
The book is beautifully laid out and lush with graphic images of the
poet and friends, but also with copies of some of the correspondence and
posters of events. Sund lived extremely humbly in a fisherman’s shack,
often off of the good will of friends. Each element fills in a story
that the reader constructs without a narrator’s bias. <br />
- See more at: http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/flutter-birds#sthash.N4mJSKa7.dpuf</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
What
editors Allen Frost and Paul Piper have done is assemble a rich
collection of Sund’s own writing and honest recollections and tributes
to the man and his work. These include some of the best writers from
that era or area: Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder,
Robert Bly, as well as his more intimate friends and fellow artists:
Charlie Craft, Tim McNulty, Arjuna (Diane) Barton, Joseph Stroud,
Frances McCue, and about 40 more.<br />
The book is beautifully laid out and lush with graphic images of the
poet and friends, but also with copies of some of the correspondence and
posters of events. Sund lived extremely humbly in a fisherman’s shack,
often off of the good will of friends. Each element fills in a story
that the reader constructs without a narrator’s bias. <br />
- See more at: http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/flutter-birds#sthash.N4mJSKa7.dpuf</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia,bold" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Confessions of a Class Poet -Larry Smith</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia,bold" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">(from <i>Faces and Voices: Tales</i>) </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Okay. What? My turn?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Stand up? Okay. Here goes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Hello. My name is Edgar Allen.
And, uh … I’m a class poet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">I started the stuff back in
junior high, scribbling into my notebook at nights alone in my room. I’d hide
it in my underwear drawer back then. I’d lie to my parents, say I was doing
math homework or writing a report, but I can admit it now—it was always poems,
one after another—getting high on them alone in
my room and hiding it in a drawer when I was through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Then one night my freshman year
of high school I was out with friends and we ended up at a coffeehouse…they
were doing an Open-Mic poetry reading and at the their coaching, I got up and
read my first poem out in public. I had been carrying it in my coat pocket for
weeks. They egged me on, and the crowd ate it up. I was hooked—I was…a class
poet—I can say it now—writing poems for friends, the school newspaper, and then
the school’s literary magazine</span> <i><span style="font-family: "georgia,italic" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Georgia\,Italic";">A
Pocket Full of Dreams</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Others heard about me and
before long I was writing poems for them for their girlfriends, eventually
writing the class poem, the class song. I was in above my head and couldn’t
stop myself—I was addicted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">For a time in college, I gave
it all up, became a math major, studied science, developed my left brain. But
then I had too much time to myself, sat through long hours of boring lectures,
a pen in my hand, paper there before me, and soon I was at it again—writing
poems, going to poetry readings, reading single poems,
then books by a single poet, finally I was doing whole anthologies. I had it
bad. I began writing for the literary magazine </span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia,italic" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Georgia\,Italic";">A
Cup of Poems</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">For a long time I hid it from
my folks, but then the English Department sent an issue of </span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia,italic" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Georgia\,Italic";">A
Cup </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">home to my parents. Soon I got the call. I couldn’t explain, told them
I didn’t want to hurt anyone. The next weekend they did an intervention on me.
My sister cried and begged me to continue my math major, said she knew a kid
who was an English major and couldn’t get a job, was out on the streets and
ended up awful—teaching sophomore English in a local high school. “Did I really
want that? Did I know what it would do to our family?” Mom said, “We love you
anyway, but please try to stop!” For the first time I saw my dad cry. I told them I loved them but I
could handle the stuff, I was twenty-one, an adult, for god’s sake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">They’d gotten nowhere, and soon
I was writing poems to a girl I found working in the library—she became my
friend, and then my love. Turns out she was doing the stuff too—and our poems
crossed at the circulation desk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">We started an Open-Mic at the
Coffee-Cup, and took over editing the lit magazine. We were two kids hooked and
hooking others to writing poems. I’m not proud of any of this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">We were spreading the word to
all we met. Soon I was majoring in English and looking at a lifetime of words. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">And then, well, Emily met Jack
here and she started coming to your meetings—and so talked me into coming here
tonight. I can tell you that I’ve already gotten rid of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my notebook and pens. Betsy checks my word
processor for anything that has meter or even slightly rhymes. I’ve been clean for five days now—no
verses, no stanzas, no lyric or narrative, no metaphors or puns, not even a
prose poem. I know I’ll always be a poet,
and I can’t promise that you all won’t end up in a poem tomorrow, but I’m
trying, with Emily’s help, I’m taking it a day at a time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Thanks to you all. It’s good to
come clean, even if I had to do it with words.</span></div>
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I write this, the death knell of Appalachian coal is being sounded.
Not today, not tomorrow, but soon, coal mining will only support a few
people in the region. Mike and Ruth Yarrow have performed a great
service. In Voices From the Appalachian Coalfields they have preserved
the voices of the men and women who performed the dangerous work of
mining in order to power the nation through the 20th century. Coal
miners have received little thanks for their sacrifice. Perhaps these
voices will remind us that the remaining miners deserve support as they
face an uncertain future". ~Denise Giardina, author of <i>Storming Heaven </i>and<i> The Unquiet Earth</i></span></span></h3>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">"This
is an important contribution to Appalachian and Working Class studies.
Grounded in the lives of Appalachian coal miners and their wives facing
harsh economic times, these poems offer a vivid picture of their
thoughts, emotions, fears, anger, struggles and courage. Hear their
voices. Learn from them. Be inspired by them." ~Steve Fisher, co-editor
of <i>Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia</i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Larry Smith </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">is a native Midwesterner, born and raised in a working-class family in the industrial Ohio River Valley. In </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">1965</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> he graduated from Muskingum College in Ohio and at 21 married a hometown girl, Ann Zaben. He woked in the steel mills that summer and they soon moved to Euclid, Ohio where he taught high school and Ann began working as a nurse. He earned degrees at Kent State University (M.A. and Ph.D), and was there when the riots and shootings of students occurred. In </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">1970-1971</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> he and Ann and their daughter Laura moved to Huron, Ohio where he began teaching at Firelands College of Bowling Green State University. Son Brian (1970) and daughter Suzanne (1975) were born in Huron.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">He is the author of eight books of poetry, a book of memoirs, six books of fiction, two literary biographies of authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Patchen, and two books of translations from the Chinese with co-translator Mei Hui Huang. His photo history of his hometown Mingo Junction appeared recently in the Images of America Series. Two of his film scripts on authors James Wright and Kenneth Patchen have been made into films with Tom Koba and shown on PBS. In </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">1980</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> he was a Fulbright lecturer in American Literature in Sicily on "The Beats and the American Romantic Movement."</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">As a professor of English and humanities at Firelands College </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">(1970-2013)</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> he has taught writing and literature and served as director of the Firelands Writing Center, a cooperative of writers. As director of the </span><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>literary publisher, Bottom Dog Press, Inc., he has edited over 60 books and carried into publication some 180 titles of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. In addition, Smith has been a reviewer for </b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 17px;">American Book Review, Parabola, Small Press Review, Choice, The San Francisco Review of Books, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohioana Quarterly, Heartlands</span></i><span style="line-height: 17px;">, and the </span><i><span style="line-height: 17px;">New York Journal of Books</span></i></b><span style="line-height: 17px;"><b>. He is a requested presenter at various writers’ conferences in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania,, West Virginia, New York and Kentucky. His poetry has been featured on American Public Media’s "Writer’s Almanac" with Garrison Keillor. His novel </b></span><b><i><span style="line-height: 17px;">The Free Farm</span></i><span style="line-height: 17px;"> has been released this year from Bottom Dog Press, followed by </span></b><i><span style="line-height: 17px;"><b>Each Moment All: Meditations as Poems </b></span></i><b><span style="line-height: 17px;">(2012) and </span><i><span style="line-height: 17px;">Lake Winds: Poems</span></i><span style="line-height: 17px;"> (2014).</span></b></span></b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Since his retirement in</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> 2003</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> as professor emeritus, he has done volunteer work for hospice, Court Appointed Special Advocate program, and St. Vincent de Paul Society. In</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> 2007 </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">he and wife Ann and Lou and Jan Young founded Converging Paths Meditation Center in Sandusky, Ohio</span><span style="line-height: 17px;">.</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> He enjoys playing guitar and doing meditation</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> and being with his wife and 8 grandchildren.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's to this fine Fall weather we're having...May the geese fly high and the fish run long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bottom Dog Press continues its run of fine books...Next up are two Appalachian books of fiction: one a classic in a revised edition, the other a fresh new novel depicting the Appalachia of today:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Michael Henson's <i>A Small Room with Trouble on My Mind and Other Stories</i>, and Sheldon Lee Compton's <i>Brown Bottle: A Novel</i>. Watch for them in our Appalachian Fiction Series in January. </span><br />
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If Whitman were born in the Midwest to Mennonite parents, listened to
Dylan and the Dead and loved to laugh at himself, he’d sound just like
Jeff Gundy. “I want the reader as far inside of my skin as possible,” he
writes, in bemused poems that are in love with the productions of
matter and time. “How else to describe this absurd, lovely world?” he
poses in the title poem of his warm and inviting Abandoned Homeland.
Gundy’s poetry reminds us, over and over, that paying attention to the
delights and troubles of existence becomes a kind of psalm to this
botched and beautiful creation. ~Philip Metres, author of <i>Sand Opera</i>
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Path Less Traveled ~Larry Smith</span></div>
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roads diverged in a wood, and I— </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Perhaps
America’s most popular and often quoted poem, this one from Robert Frost was
learned “by heart” by many of us in grade school. And that is where I wrote my
first poems as well, in Mrs. Merzi’s sixth grade English class. Some say Frost
was writing about his choice to be a writer here, the less travelled path, but
for many it comes across as any major life decision. And yet for me, being a
writer may have come then as I looked out the window at my steel mill town
where announcing that you were a poet was little recognized and might even get
you ridiculed or punched. I recall one day later in high school English
learning that a poet named James Wright from down river in Martins Ferry who
had won some national award for writing poetry. It knocked me out, and gave me
inspiration that those poems and stories of mine that I’d scribbled in
notebooks and tucked away in a desk drawer at home might someday see the light
of day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Where
I am headed with this recall of my writer’s path is tracing where and how this
less traveled path was chosen, or did it in fact choose me. Back in 1961 when
I graduated from Mingo Central high school, going to college was a little
traveled path. Out of a class of 61, only 6 went on to higher education. I was
one, as I quickly followed my older brother David in being the first and second
in the Smith family to ever go on to college. Both of us became teachers, the
closest profession to our working-class youth, and I like to think, a way of
paying back for the help we had received. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So
what fires did Mrs. Merzi light for me back then? I recall with wonder sitting
in sixth grade class behind Paula Rauch and staring at her long dark hair when
Mrs. Merzi announced, “Okay, now let’s close our books. That’s it, just put
them away, because I have a little present for you.” Sorry to say that
“cookies” was my first thought. I mean, what teacher ever gave all of us
something! But what she unwrapped and handed one by one to each of us at our
desk was a small booklet. It was printed on soft cream colored paper with small
type and a single staple. “This is a gift of poetry from the Haldeman-Julius
foundation.” I’d never heard such a strange name. But as I turned the small
pages, poem after poem came smiling back at me. “And these are just for you.” </span></div>
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Kenny called out, “To keep?” Mrs. Merzi just nodded yes, to keep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“And
we’re going to read some of the poems.” We weren’t surprised at this, but when
she added, “And, then we are going to write some of our own,” I stared back at
her in amazement as she nodded again. “Yes, you are going to learn to write
poems as well.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As
I remember it now, that first day we read Emily Dickinson’s little poem: </span></div>
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nobody! Who are you?<br />
Are you nobody, too?<br />
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!<br />
They'd banish -- you know!<br />
<br />
How dreary to be somebody!<br />
How public like a frog<br />
To tell one's name the livelong day<br />
To an admiring bog! </span></div>
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was some laughter at this for those who got it, some stares of puzzlement. And
then, we were given the challenge. “Now, boys and girls, we are going to
memorize this poem.” Sighs and groans went up. “Now, I know that you can do
this. And we will each stand up and recite it in class on Monday.” More groans.
“Don’t doubt yourself. You will learn it by heard and say it out for all of us.
And next we will write our own small poems like this one.” Again sighs.</span><br />
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our hands, to go to our lockers, put on our coats, stand in the hallway and be
dismissed for the weekend and home. </span></div>
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the poem memorized by Sunday morning and recited it in the kitchen for my mom
and dad before church. By Sunday evening I had also written one of my first
ever poems. The words came out one by one as if dictated, though they needed a
bit of arranging.</span></div>
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Monday we each stood and recited, some better than others, but we knew from her
belief in us that we were not nobodies. And I had found a path, one that would
take me through endless self searching, risky assertion, and painful rejection,
yet would teach me sensitive listening to others and to language, and reward
with the satisfaction of deep connections and finished works. And that has made
all of the difference. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/ten-windows">Larry's Review of Jane Hirshfield's Ten Windows book</a></div>
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Jane
Hirshfield is one of our finest poets writing today and also one of our
best essayists on the act of writing and the art of poetry. - See more
at:
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price of the book, it is literally surrounded by long, insightful, often
demanding studies of other fine poems and poets, and in fact the very nature of
Poetry. Just as Jane Hirshfield opened gates for us to see poetry’s bond with
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http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/ten-windows#sthash.wqcu0pu5.dpuf</div>
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<b>The Writing Process: Tension and Release…Holding on and
Letting Go</b></div>
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“Don’t tell your stories too soon,”
she said and walked away at the book party, leaving me in a quandary. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why not…I’m a writer?</i> This from the same
person who told me I need to share my work with others in workshops. When I
tracked her down with a question and glass of wine for both of us, she
explained, “Oh, honey, what I said was don’t tell your stories <i>too soon</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i> That’s the key to getting them
written. Hold onto that tension of their seeking expression. If you talk it out
with your partner, over coffee with friends, or in a classroom before it’s
written, it probably never will be finished.” </div>
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It was beginning to dawn on me that
there was a reason she wrote a book on teaching creative children. And she’d
been right about sharing writing that had been labored over with others in
workshops where you come to own it and sense how it is heard and shared. </div>
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“How do you think I finished my novel?”
she added sipping her white wine and winking. “If I’d told it all before I’d
hashed it out, it would be there in air. You have to sit with it, live with it
till it blooms inside you and all you can do is write to out.” Then she stroked
my cheek with her free hand, “Oh, you men never get to know what it’s like to
carry a child. Let it gestate and something wonderful will develop.”</div>
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Feeling a little like a puppy at
her heels, I nevertheless allowed the sense of it to connect with my
experience. There were countless times when I had an idea on the drive to
school, then released it in the classroom as I taught. It all felt so natural,
the story connecting in my head and heart with the lesson I was teaching. And
yet, Jane was right. How many times had I sat down and written that poem or
story? Almost never, unless it evolved and had a second life. Better had the
idea come on the drive home from school, where I had time and space to scratch
it out and turn it from talk in the air to words on the page. When the writing
comes, go to a place where you can receive it…pull off the road or go to your
room, or the corner of the coffeehouse. Receive it as a medium for it will
carry you along. </div>
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You see, there is this creative
tension no one talks much about, a large secret we artists and writers don’t
want to expose lest it disappear. Ask an artist about his or her art while they
are at it, or after, and most will give you nothing in response. Silence before
the inner muse. They don’t want to analyze it away. Allen Ginsberg once warned
against self-consciousness while creating, saying something like: “When you
stop your writing to say, ‘Hey, look at me writing,’ you no longer are.”
Staying with the creative tension, the seeking and following what you’ve found,
is the way in and out. </div>
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As an editor-publisher, I have sat
at book fairs and listened to people tell me about their novel…spinning it out
with endless unfathomable detail…and never buying a book. But when I ask how
long is it? I typically hear, “Oh, I haven’t written it yet.” And pointing to
their head, they add, “It’s all up here.” </div>
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And I just smile and nod, “Well,
get back to me when it’s written.” But what I’m really sensing is that it never
will. </div>
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Now, I know that no two writers or
artists work the same, so this may or may not be true for you. But I whisper
this secret of creating as a little riprap along the trail, and one of the many
ways of the craft that may guide you on your way. </div>
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This should be a strong event focusing on one of America's finest writers through the writings of another fine writer Kurt Landefeld. It's a work of imagination and dedication to a vision. Come and share.Spirit Poemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09793224929375745298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34359155.post-44318561937202501272015-02-22T05:05:00.000-08:002015-03-14T04:45:21.065-07:00The Fog of Snow poem<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;">More Nature Photo-Poems in the Zen spirit.</span></div>
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Spirit Poemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09793224929375745298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34359155.post-20599262305381587182015-01-08T09:12:00.001-08:002015-01-08T09:12:07.959-08:00Call for Manuscripts: APPALACHIA NOW: CONTEMPORARY FICTION.<br />
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<span class="posted-on"><a href="http://charlesdoddwhite.me/2015/01/08/new-appalachian-anthology-call-for-submissions/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2015-01-08T13:09:37+00:00">January 8, 2015</time></a></span><span class="byline"><span class="sep"> </span><span class="author vcard"></span></span> </div>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Appalachia Now: Contemporary Fiction</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bottom
Dog Press is issuing a call for submissions for this forthcoming
anthology of contemporary Appalachian short stories. The stories
included will be sharp, vivid evocations of a place, its people and
culture. We aren’t seeking sentimental treatments, but strong human
stories. Both Northern and Southern treatments of the Appalachian theme
are encouraged. Style is open, as long as it serves the story and the
audience. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Editors: Larry Smith and Charles Dodd White</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
book will be published as part of Bottom Dog Press’s Appalachian
Fiction Series and is considered a follow-up to the best selling </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Degrees of Elevation</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> anthology published by Bottom Dog Press in 2010.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Length: between 3,000 and 6,000 words.</span></b><br />
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">Submissions are open now. The reading will be ongoing.</span></b><br />
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">Deadline: March <span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span>15, 2015.</span></span></span></span></b><br />
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">Email submissions only. Send attached .doc file to:
charlesdoddwhite@gmail.com and make sure the word “Submission” is
somewhere in the subject line.</span></b><br />
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span>Payment: $50 and two copies</span></span></span></span></b><br />
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">Reprints are acceptable in some cases. Please let us know where it’s been published and if the publication was print or online.</span></b><br />
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">Simultaneous submissions are okay as long as we are notified immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.</span></b><br />
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">No multiple submissions, please. Pick your best story and send it forward.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Bottom Dog Press is an independent literary small press in its 30</span><sup><span style="font-size: medium;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"> year with 180 titles.</span><br />
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Spirit Poemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09793224929375745298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34359155.post-84619998596971834742014-12-01T14:33:00.003-08:002015-12-17T03:25:51.202-08:00Mingo Junction, Ohio photo-poems<a href="https://vimeo.com/113325351">https://vimeo.com/113325351</a><br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/113325351">Mingo Hometown Photo-Poem film...short and sweet</a></div>
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<br />Spirit Poemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09793224929375745298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34359155.post-12867029792103710952014-11-26T11:56:00.002-08:002014-11-26T11:59:38.705-08:00 Here is my review of Diane di Prima's new book <i>The Poetry Deal,</i> City Lights Books...honoring her as Poet Laureate of San Francisco (2014).<br />
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1116076358Spirit Poemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09793224929375745298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34359155.post-7965019248468210102014-11-17T12:46:00.001-08:002014-11-17T12:47:42.120-08:00<a href="http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/something-rich-and-strange">Larry Smith review of Something Rich and Strange:</a> Selected Stories<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ron Rash is often billed as a
“Southern” or an “Appalachian” writer, and it’s true that he writes from the
heart of a place and its people, but this should not confine him, any more than
Faulkner is confined by Mississippi or Hemingway by Upper Michigan. It’s not a
box, then, but an open window into his work and world. True, he chooses to live
in Western North Carolina where he grew up and now works, teaching at Western
Carolina University, but he is very much a contemporary American writer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He is a the author of five
prizewinning novels, including <i>Serena </i>and <i>One Foot in Eden</i>, and
four collections of poetry as well as five collections of stories, among them <i>Burning
Bright,</i> <i>Nothing Gold Can Stay</i>, and <i>Chemistry and Other Stories</i>.
This opus collection of his short fiction (his favorite form) is drawn from all
of the short fiction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He brings his poet’s eyes to the
images of his people and place and his native ears to the language of that
locale. One of the best tales, “Into the Gorge” opens with his description:
“His great-aunt had been born on this land, lived on it eight decades, and knew
it as well as she knew her husband and children. That was what she’d always
claimed, and could tell you to the week when the first dogwood blossom would
brighten the ridge, the first blackberry darken and swell enough to harvest.”
This story moves from the aunt’s demise in the woods to a simple yet wild story
of Jesse’s misfortune when hunting ginseng. It is one of the most plotted of
his stories and one of the most troubling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Typically, Ron Rash writes what we
might term slice-of-life fiction, where the story seems to happen with the same
absence of form as life itself. He has declared that he locates character and
place and then tries to stay out of the way of the story. And so they often end
as they start in the middle of circumstance. But the characters, the dialogue,
and the images are so vivid they hold you close. It’s like stopping in a local
dinner, sipping your coffee, and overhearing the talk and watching the faces of
those sitting in the next booth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The time frame ranges from
depression times up to the most modern. “Hard Times” opens with Jacob and Edna
on their farm surrounded by the poverty of neighbors. It’s a beautiful story
and one of the most tender.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Back of Beyond” leads us into a
contemporary Appalachian town consumed by the use and abuse of methadone. But
don’t expect themes or stances from Rash. There is suspense and there are
moments of understanding, but he is there to record—what is seen and what is
missed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ron Rash’s writing resonates with
our lives.</span></div>
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Ron
Rash is often billed as a “Southern” or an “Appalachian” writer, and
it’s true that he writes from the heart of a place and its people, but
this should not confine him, any more than Faulkner is confined by
Mississippi or Hemingway by Upper Michigan. It’s not a box, then, but an
open window into his work and world. True, he chooses to live in
Western North Carolina where he grew up and now works, teaching at
Western Carolina University, but he is very much a contemporary American
writer.<br />
He is a the author of five prizewinning novels, including <i>Serena </i>and <i>One Foot in Eden</i>, and four collections of poetry as well as five collections of stories, among them <i>Burning Bright,</i> <i>Nothing Gold Can Stay</i>, and <i>Chemistry and Other Stories</i>. This opus collection of his short fiction (his favorite form) is drawn from all of the short fiction.<br />
He brings his poet’s eyes to the images of his people and place and
his native ears to the language of that locale. One of the best tales,
“Into the Gorge” opens with his description: “His great-aunt had been
born on this land, lived on it eight decades, and knew it as well as she
knew her husband and children. That was what she’d always claimed, and
could tell you to the week when the first dogwood blossom would brighten
the ridge, the first blackberry darken and swell enough to harvest.”
This story moves from the aunt’s demise in the woods to a simple yet
wild story of Jesse’s misfortune when hunting ginseng. It is one of the
most plotted of his stories and one of the most troubling.<br />
Typically, Ron Rash writes what we might term slice-of-life fiction,
where the story seems to happen with the same absence of form as life
itself. He has declared that he locates character and place and then
tries to stay out of the way of the story. And so they often end as they
start in the middle of circumstance. But the characters, the dialogue,
and the images are so vivid they hold you close. It’s like stopping in a
local dinner, sipping your coffee, and overhearing the talk and
watching the faces of those sitting in the next booth.<br />
The time frame ranges from depression times up to the most modern.
“Hard Times” opens with Jacob and Edna on their farm surrounded by the
poverty of neighbors. It’s a beautiful story and one of the most tender.<br />
“Back of Beyond” leads us into a contemporary Appalachian town
consumed by the use and abuse of methadone. But don’t expect themes or
stances from Rash. There is suspense and there are moments of
understanding, but he is there to record—what is seen and what is
missed.<br />
Ron Rash’s writing resonates with our lives.<br />
- See more at: http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/something-rich-and-strange#sthash.hou4ZY2N.dpuf</div>
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<b>“Ron Rash’s writing resonates with our lives.” </b><br />
Ron Rash is often billed as a “Southern” or an “Appalachian” writer,
and it’s true that he writes from the heart of a place and its people,
but this should not confine him, any more than Faulkner is confined by
Mississippi or Hemingway by Upper Michigan. It’s not a box, then, but an
open window into his work and world. True, he chooses to live in
Western North Carolina where he grew up and now works, teaching at
Western Carolina University, but he is very much a contemporary American
writer.<br />
He is a the author of five prizewinning novels, including <i>Serena </i>and <i>One Foot in Eden</i>, and four collections of poetry as well as five collections of stories, among them <i>Burning Bright,</i> <i>Nothing Gold Can Stay</i>, and <i>Chemistry and Other Stories</i>. This opus collection of his short fiction (his favorite form) is drawn from all of the short fiction.<br />
He brings his poet’s eyes to the images of his people and place and
his native ears to the language of that locale. One of the best tales,
“Into the Gorge” opens with his description: “His great-aunt had been
born on this land, lived on it eight decades, and knew it as well as she
knew her husband and children. That was what she’d always claimed, and
could tell you to the week when the first dogwood blossom would brighten
the ridge, the first blackberry darken and swell enough to harvest.”
This story moves from the aunt’s demise in the woods to a simple yet
wild story of Jesse’s misfortune when hunting ginseng. It is one of the
most plotted of his stories and one of the most troubling.<br />
Typically, Ron Rash writes what we might term slice-of-life fiction,
where the story seems to happen with the same absence of form as life
itself. He has declared that he locates character and place and then
tries to stay out of the way of the story. And so they often end as they
start in the middle of circumstance. But the characters, the dialogue,
and the images are so vivid they hold you close. It’s like stopping in a
local dinner, sipping your coffee, and overhearing the talk and
watching the faces of those sitting in the next booth.<br />
The time frame ranges from depression times up to the most modern.
“Hard Times” opens with Jacob and Edna on their farm surrounded by the
poverty of neighbors. It’s a beautiful story and one of the most tender.<br />
“Back of Beyond” leads us into a contemporary Appalachian town
consumed by the use and abuse of methadone. But don’t expect themes or
stances from Rash. There is suspense and there are moments of
understanding, but he is there to record—what is seen and what is
missed.<br />
Ron Rash’s writing resonates with our lives.</div>
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Larry Smith is the author of <i>Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America </i>(Bottom Dog Press, reprinted 2012) and <i>Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-at-Large</i> (Southern Illinois University Press, 1982). He is also the publisher at Bottom Dog Press.</div>
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- See more at: http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/something-rich-and-strange#sthash.gepGdAF0.wKWfjhhI.dpuf<br />
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<b>“Ron Rash’s writing resonates with our lives.” </b><br />
Ron Rash is often billed as a “Southern” or an “Appalachian” writer,
and it’s true that he writes from the heart of a place and its people,
but this should not confine him, any more than Faulkner is confined by
Mississippi or Hemingway by Upper Michigan. It’s not a box, then, but an
open window into his work and world. True, he chooses to live in
Western North Carolina where he grew up and now works, teaching at
Western Carolina University, but he is very much a contemporary American
writer.<br />
He is a the author of five prizewinning novels, including <i>Serena </i>and <i>One Foot in Eden</i>, and four collections of poetry as well as five collections of stories, among them <i>Burning Bright,</i> <i>Nothing Gold Can Stay</i>, and <i>Chemistry and Other Stories</i>. This opus collection of his short fiction (his favorite form) is drawn from all of the short fiction.<br />
He brings his poet’s eyes to the images of his people and place and
his native ears to the language of that locale. One of the best tales,
“Into the Gorge” opens with his description: “His great-aunt had been
born on this land, lived on it eight decades, and knew it as well as she
knew her husband and children. That was what she’d always claimed, and
could tell you to the week when the first dogwood blossom would brighten
the ridge, the first blackberry darken and swell enough to harvest.”
This story moves from the aunt’s demise in the woods to a simple yet
wild story of Jesse’s misfortune when hunting ginseng. It is one of the
most plotted of his stories and one of the most troubling.<br />
Typically, Ron Rash writes what we might term slice-of-life fiction,
where the story seems to happen with the same absence of form as life
itself. He has declared that he locates character and place and then
tries to stay out of the way of the story. And so they often end as they
start in the middle of circumstance. But the characters, the dialogue,
and the images are so vivid they hold you close. It’s like stopping in a
local dinner, sipping your coffee, and overhearing the talk and
watching the faces of those sitting in the next booth.<br />
The time frame ranges from depression times up to the most modern.
“Hard Times” opens with Jacob and Edna on their farm surrounded by the
poverty of neighbors. It’s a beautiful story and one of the most tender.<br />
“Back of Beyond” leads us into a contemporary Appalachian town
consumed by the use and abuse of methadone. But don’t expect themes or
stances from Rash. There is suspense and there are moments of
understanding, but he is there to record—what is seen and what is
missed.<br />
Ron Rash’s writing resonates with our lives.</div>
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Larry Smith is the author of <i>Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America </i>(Bottom Dog Press, reprinted 2012) and <i>Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-at-Large</i> (Southern Illinois University Press, 1982). He is also the publisher at Bottom Dog Press.</div>
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