Literary Patriarch for Gurney Norman

FEATURED AUTHOR-GURNEY NORMAN Literary Patriarchfor Gurney Norman Frank X Walker Got my mamma's lips but I dot my eyes like him or so I'm told. She taught me how to stand. He taught me how to walk into a classroom up to a podium and pretend it was just the front porch a collection of tree stumps a circle of kin. Everything I know about the Ohio River Valley Appalachian Literature and post-modern community activism I learned while riding shotgun into the mountains marveling at his Mecca Once after a short hike from Hindman to Hazard to Hazel Green he pushed his glasses back on his nose held up two chalk board hands and said "what I see happening is this?" then proceeded to map out concentric typographical circles with grass roots that ignored continental and racial divides 30 and I believed and have watched it all unfold and spiral around me just like he said it would Some see a silver sage a bespectacled Daniel Boone with his fountain pen cocked I see my literary father. See page 2 for acknowledgement of previous publication. 31 ...