Appalachian Elegy: Poem # 7
Rent from DeepDyve- Appalachian Elegy: Poem # 7
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again and again she call me this wilderness within urging me onward be here make a path where the sound of ancestor speak a language heard beyond the grave this earth I stand on belongs to the many dead treasure I find here is all gift tender solace holding back the future the dead that will not let us forget late ones an event further back the ancients dreaming beyond time they will not let us forget time is aboriginal eternal they carry us back take us through the sacred portal that we may come again and again into the always present [End Page 12]
Bell Hooks will be the featured author of our Summer 2013 issue. She is the author of more than thirty books and presently serves as Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies for Berea College. The Atlantic Monthly called her “one of our nation’s leading public intellectuals.”
