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- Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: West Virginia University Press
summary
The sixty-three fiction writers and poets within this anthology delve deep into the many senses of place that modern West Virginia, the core of Appalachia, inspires.
Throughout this collection, we see profound wonder, questioning, and conflicts involving family, sexual identity, class, discrimination, environmental beauty, and peril, and all the sorts of rebellion, error, contemplation, and contentment that an intrepid soul can devise. These stories and poems, all published within the last fifteen years, are grounded in what it means to live in and identify with a complex place.
With a mix of established writers like Jayne Anne Phillips, Norman Jordan, Ann Pancake, Maggie Anderson, and Denise Giardina and fresh voices like Matthew Neill Null, Ida Stewart, Rajia Hassib, and Scott McClanahan, this collection breaks open new visions of all-American landscapes of the heart. By turns rowdy and contemplative, hilarious and bleak, and lyrical and gritty, it is a collage of extraordinary literary visions.
Throughout this collection, we see profound wonder, questioning, and conflicts involving family, sexual identity, class, discrimination, environmental beauty, and peril, and all the sorts of rebellion, error, contemplation, and contentment that an intrepid soul can devise. These stories and poems, all published within the last fifteen years, are grounded in what it means to live in and identify with a complex place.
With a mix of established writers like Jayne Anne Phillips, Norman Jordan, Ann Pancake, Maggie Anderson, and Denise Giardina and fresh voices like Matthew Neill Null, Ida Stewart, Rajia Hassib, and Scott McClanahan, this collection breaks open new visions of all-American landscapes of the heart. By turns rowdy and contemplative, hilarious and bleak, and lyrical and gritty, it is a collage of extraordinary literary visions.
Table of Contents
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- To My Reader
- pp. v-vi
- Table of Contents
- pp. x-xvii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-2
- A Blessing
- p. 6
- Vow of Silence
- p. 18
- Stone-Hearted
- pp. 19-20
- The Rink Girl
- pp. 22-37
- The Dream of the Father
- pp. 38-40
- Through the Still Hours
- pp. 41-54
- The Boys of Bradleytown
- pp. 55-59
- August, West Virginia
- pp. 60-61
- The Dirt Road
- pp. 62-63
- Waking to Spring
- pp. 64-65
- Thin Places
- pp. 68-71
- Almost Heaven, Almost Famous
- pp. 73-74
- Kennedy Wins West Virginia!
- pp. 75-77
- With No Questions
- pp. 79-80
- A Jar of Rain
- pp. 91-92
- Phantom Flesh
- p. 93
- Appalachian Ghost
- p. 95
- Dark Early
- pp. 96-100
- Belle Fleur
- pp. 101-107
- A History of Barbed Wire
- pp. 108-111
- Picking Blackberries
- pp. 126-129
- I Have Slept in Beds and in Gutters
- pp. 130-131
- Helen, Sovereign
- pp. 132-134
- Homage to Hazel Dickens
- pp. 135-136
- Zach Speaks
- pp. 137-138
- Quarantine
- pp. 142-155
- Robbing Pillars
- pp. 156-160
- Dogwood, Cardinal
- p. 161
- Natural Resources
- pp. 165-169
- Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley
- pp. 170-188
- From: Lark and Termite
- pp. 189-202
- What’s Left of the Jamie Archer Band
- pp. 203-219
- The West Virginia Copper-Wing
- pp. 225-226
- Crepuscule
- pp. 227-228
- West Virginia Spring
- p. 229
- In the Chemical Valley
- pp. 234-235
- Point Blank
- pp. 237-238
- Recovering Blues
- pp. 248-249
- Country Music
- pp. 270-271
- Bear Country Blues
- pp. 272-281
- Relapse Means I Forgot to Be Better
- pp. 282-283
- Daddy Longlegs
- p. 286
- The Roy Critchfield Scandals
- pp. 288-299
- To Toil Not
- pp. 301-302
- Contributors
- pp. 303-312
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 313-314
Additional Information
ISBN
9781943665563
Related ISBN(s)
9781943665549, 9781943665556
MARC Record
OCLC
973538304
Pages
335
Launched on MUSE
2017-03-03
Language
English
Open Access
No