Every River on Earth : Writing from Appalachian Ohio.
Title:
Every River on Earth : Writing from Appalachian Ohio.
Author:
Carpathios, Neil.
ISBN:
9780821445105
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (168 pages)
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction -- 1: Family and Folks -- Roy Bentley: Mirror, Brush & Comb -- Roy Bentley: Far -- Roy Bentley: A Night in 1962 -- David Lee Garrison: Folding Tables and Five-Card Stud -- Beverly Zeimer:Peace in a Primitive Place -- Jean Musser: Ohio Lightning -- Preston Martin: Stubborn Roots -- Beverly Zeimer: Enough to Go Around- RR 1 West Jefferson, Ohio, 1950 -- Ed Davis: The Offer -- Janet Ladrach: The Farmer's Wife's Vacation -- Jeanne Bryner: Watching My Neighbor in His Fields -- Julie L. Moore: A Clear Path -- Cathryn Essinger: The Way Things Are- Summer Solstice, 2010 -- Jeanne Bryner: August 1976- Bertha Welcomes Me to the Neighborhood -- David Baker: Outside -- Benjamin S. Grossberg: In Memoriam- Ginger -- Diane Kendig: Written on a Big Cheap Postcard From the James Wright Festival in Martins Ferry, Ohio, 1999 -- Michael Waterson: Remembering James Wright -- 2: The Land -- Sue Lonney: Ohio Hills -- Cathryn Essinger: Beside Spring Creek (Ohio River Valley Watershed) -- Cathyrn Essinger: Someday, the sycamores . . . -- Richard Hague: Sycamore Country -- Benjamin S. Grossberg: Not Children -- Brian Richards -- Ivars Balkits: Box -- Scott Urban: Hallows Eve- Ohio, 2011 -- David Baker: Too Many -- Don Bogen: Cardinals -- Michelle Y. Burke: Horse Loquela -- Michelle Y. Burke: Market Day -- Julie L. Moore: The Poet Performs in the Theater of Cows -- Christopher Citro: Wine Tasting, Nine a.m. -- David Lee Garrison: Every River on Earth -- 3: The Grind -- Laura Madeline Wiseman: In Line for the Cashier -- Laura Madeline Wiseman: South of the Train Tracks -- Joel Peckham: Everything Must Go -- Michael Henson: Coming Home -- Christina Jones: The Last Shot -- David Baker: Patriotics -- Brooks Rexroat: Destroying New Boston -- Donald Ray Pollock: The Jesus Lights -- Joel Peckham : Psalm 96.
Cathy Cultice Lentes: To the Young Man Living on the Fourteenth Floor, Missing the Hills of Appalachia -- Dallas Woodburn: The Stars in Shawnee -- Mark Jenkins: Reading James Wright during a Louisiana Afternoon Thunderstorm I Realize There Are Worse Places to Live Than Zanesville, Ohio -- Don Bogen: A Ride -- Ronald D. Giles: The Friday Night Dance -- Myrna Stone: The Girls Play Dress-Up -- Myrna Stone: Pyrotechnicalities -- Tanya Bomsta: Painting Portsmouth -- Herbert Woodward Martin: Kathleen's Talent -- David Lee Garrison: Route 4 -- Adam Sol: Portrait of Southern Ohio in 5-Syllable Road Signs -- Christopher Citro: In This Reality, You Exit at the Next McDonald's for Fries and a Shake -- Christopher Citro: You Just Sit There Dreaming -- Hayley Hughes: The Fair -- Jennifer schomburg Kanke: caution- do not use with mono devices -- Lianne Spidel: Moving to Adams County, 1973 -- Jean Musser: Visiting Ohio -- Rebecca j. r. Lachman: Tourist Brochure for Athens, Ohio -- Janet Ladrach: Caught Up in Summer -- Author Biographies and Commentaries -- Permissions -- Discussion Questions -- About the Editor.
Abstract:
Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary writers, both established and up-and-coming. The wide range of material from authors such as David Baker, Don Bogen, Michelle Burke, Richard Hague, Donald Ray Pollock, and others, offers the reader a window into daily life in the region. The people, the landscape, the struggles, and the deepest undercurrents of what it means to be from and of a place are revealed in these original, deeply moving, and sometimes shocking pieces. The book is divided into four sections: Family & Folks, The Land, The Grind, and Home & Away, each of which explores a different aspect of the place that these authors call home. The sections work together beautifully to capture what it means to live, to love, and to die in this particular slice of Appalachia. The writing is accessible and often emotionally raw; Every River on Earth invites all types of readers and conveys a profound appreciation of the region's character. The authors also offer personal statements about their writing, allowing the reader an intimate insight into their processes, aesthetics, and inspirations. What is it to be an Appalachian? What is it to be an Appalachian in Ohio? This book vividly paints that picture. Every River on Earth David Lee Garrison I look out the window and see through the neighbor's window to an Amish buggy where three children are peeping back, and in their eyes I see the darkness of plowed earth hiding seed. Wind pokes the land in winter, trying to waken it, and in the melting snow I see rainbows and in them every river on earth. I see all the way to the ocean, where sand and stones embrace each falling wave and reach back to gather it in.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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