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ISBN: 9780967605128 - Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, 1950-1999  Enlarge Bookmark and Share

Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, 1950-1999

Smith, Barbara Judd, Kirk

ISBN: 9780967605128
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Publishers Place


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This stunning volume gathers 134 poets writing within afifty-year timespan on subjects as varied as Japanese flower gardening, hog-butchering, mother-daughter relations, and selling the farm…

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This stunning volume gathers 134 poets writing within afifty-year timespan on subjects as varied as Japanese flower gardening, hog-butchering, mother-daughter relations, and selling the farm. It went into its thirdprinting in less than a year and has been used as a text in seven colleges and universities.

"A landmark in West Virginia literary history (and) also a model of poetic celebration." -- Gordon Simmons, Coordinator, Artists Services, West Virginia Cultural Center, Charleston, WV

"An ode to West Virginia. . . . A wealthof knowledge, compassion, and inspiration." -- Charleston (WV) Gazette-Mail

"Clear and bright, enough light to read by. This is what we've been waiting for." -- Grace Cavalieri, Producer, "The Poet and the Poem" on National Public Radio

 
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