About Our Poets

being merely a compendium of information, it is organized according to the activity, and each section is introduced with a personal-experience narrative. Quite frankly, it is a little egocentric for my taste, but it does the job in a credible and innovative way. Fox, John, Jr. Blue-Grass and Rhododendron. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, a 1994 reprint of a 1901 release. 294 pages with reproductions of the original lithographs and a new introduction by Wade Hall. Trade paperback. $12.00 lohn Fox, ft., was a leading romantic novelist of the early twentieth century. His works, especially The Little Shepherd ofKingdom Come (1905) and The Trail ofthe Lonesome Pine (1908), are still enjoyed by many readers today. However, Fox's nonfiction is little-known, and the University Press of Kentucky has rendered a great service in reprinting this gem of that genre. Readers will be immediately reminded of Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders (1913), set in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Fox, like Kephart, takes the reader along on manhunts with the sheriff as well as hunting and fishing expeditions . This book affords a credible picture of Eastern Kentucky life at the turn of the century. It is especially recommended for members of the "men's movement" and that handful of Eastern Kentucky men who have the courage to invade the almost-totally female classrooms of the region's public colleges. About Our Poets Rebecca Atchison, Flemingsburg, Kentucky, is a freshman at Translyvania University in Lexington. A National Merit Scholar, she has a W. T. Young Scholarship . It was her uncle who died from Agent Orange complications and the old man, gravely ill, is her grandfather . . . Edward C. Lynskey lives in Warrenton, Virginia. He received first place award in poetry last year in our Denny C. Plattner Awardsfor Excellence in Writing . . . Joel McCollough works as a partner in a desktop publishingfirm in Taylors, South Carolina. "There are still voices in those mountains that I would like to hear, " he wrote; "perhaps writing is merely an excuse to go listen." . . . Leigh Palmergrew up in Wytheville, Virginia. She has appeared recently in New England Review and The Greensboro Review, and has held a RandallJarrell Fellowship . . . Rosemary Pitman-Redmon lives in Indianapolis, but has strong Appalachian ties through her West Virginia mother. Last year she received one of our Denny C Plattner Awards . . . Paula Wells, Greenup, Kentucky, retired after working almost thirty years in a steel mill in Portsmouth, Ohio. 78 ...