Title & Author:

Mountains piled upon mountains : Appalachian nature writing in the anthropocene / edited by Jessica Cory.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019.
©2019

Description:

x, 349 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contemplate -- On the Verge p. 15 / David R. Young -- Three for My Trail Guide p. 21 / Kathryn Stripling Byer -- Landscape with Shoes, Stewarts Creek p. 25 / Felicia Mitchell -- Dried-up Earthworms p. 26 / Michael McFee -- Shooting Rivers and Smoldering Churches: Fire and Rain in Southern Appalachia p. 27 / Gene Hyde -- Who Would I Be without the Fear of Early Budbreak p. 38 / Lisa Ezzard -- Voice p. 39 / Jesse Graves -- At Goshen Pass, the Search p. 40 / Jeanne Larsen -- Harper p. 41 / Taylor Brown -- Green Zebra p. 46 / Stephen Cushman -- Evening Storm p. 48 / John Robinson -- White Trillium p. 49 / G. C Waldrep -- Poem Written in a Stairwell, Descending p. 51 / Scott Honeycutt -- Recount -- Beaver Pond p. 55 / Sarah Beth Childers -- Our Mother p. 58 / Jesse Graves -- Going for Tadpoles in the Spring of My Son's 18th Year p. 59 / Bill King -- Spring Box p. 60 / M. W. Smith -- Joni and Jesus p. 61 / Ellen J. Perry -- In the Time of the Small Frogs p. 68 / Carol Grametbauer -- No Historical Marker, Pocosin Mission p. 69 / Stephen Cushman -- Night Falls on the Mountain p. 70 / Libby Falk Jones -- Another birthday next week, same sneaking episode p. 71 / Larry D. Jhacker -- Reverie with Chestnut Trees p. 73 / Scott Honeycutt -- Destroy -- At Heavens Dirty Riverbank p. 77 / Madison Jones -- Making Paradise p. 78 / Ed Davis -- Just before Dawn p. 88 / Kathryn Stripling Byer -- American Bittersweet p. 90 / Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- Devil's Rope p. 92 / Michael McFee -- Water Tank p. 93 / Meredith Sue Willis -- Kudzu p. 100 / Jeremy Michael Reed -- Sitting, Scurrying Forward, at Astounding p. 102 / Jeanne Larsen -- Mountaintops, Appalachia p. 104 / Susan Deer Cloud -- Stockholm State: A History p. 107 / Heather Ransom -- They Call It a Strip Job p. 119 / Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- On Waterrock Knob p. 121 / Kathryn Stripling Byer -- Shaken Foundations p. 122 / Lisa Hayes-Minney -- The Glassy Places p. 130 / G. C. Waldrep -- Border Waters p. 132 / Ben Burgholzer -- Preserve -- Appalachian Wildness and the Death of the Sublime p. 143 / Brent Martin -- Appalachian Pastoral p. 151 / Scott Honeycutt -- Deep Fade p. 152 / Madison Jones -- Hemlocks, Adelgids, and People: Ecological Learning from an Appalachian Triad p. 153 / Laura Henry-Stone -- Hear Rocks Sing. That Is a Sign p. 163 / Jeanne Larsen -- Home Farm p. 165 / Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- Uprooted p. 168 / Jessica Cory -- Thanksgiving p. 173 / John Lane -- Pillars of Carbon: National Forests and the Great Appalachian Carbon Commons p. 175 / Chris Bolgiano -- Man Talk p. 186 / Gail Tyson -- May Fourteenth p. 188 / Wayne Caldwell -- Frog and Tadpole p. 189 / Gail Tyson -- Protect -- Forest Disturbance p. 193 / KatieFallon -- Sections #24 and #25 from "Tweet: A Long Poem" p. 202 / John Lane -- Waynesville Watershed p. 208 / Kathryn Stripling Byer -- Your Mee-Maw vs. CXP Oil & Gas, LLC p. 209 / George Hovis -- Trace p. 211 / Madison Jones -- In Praise of Wilderness: Getting What You Give Up p. 212 / Thomas Rain Crowe -- Take in the Waters: On the Birthplace of Rivers, West Virginia p. 220 / Rick Van Noy -- Haint How To p. 233 / Rosemary Royston -- Magickal Substitution p. 234 / Rosemary Royston -- Broom Lore p. 236 / Rosemary Royston -- Evolve -- Letter to West Virginia, November 2016 p. 239 / Ann Pancake -- October Woods p. 243 / Jesse Graves -- Rooted: Lessons from Landscape p. 244 / Amber M. Wright -- Rime Myth p. 254 / Michael McFee -- High Water p. 256 / Mark Powell -- Cycles and (scrambled) seasons p. 276 / Doris Diosa Davenport -- Love in the Age of Inattention p. 280 / Stephen Cushman -- I don't mind the nostalgia p. 281 / Larry D. Thacker -- Returning Me My Eyes p. 283 / Bill King -- Wings and Other Things p. 284 / Chauna Craig -- Snowfields p. 293 / Larry D. Thacker -- February Springtime in the Mountains p. 295 / Libby Falk Jones -- Towhee p. 296 / Felicia Mitchell -- Celebrate -- Settling p. 299 / Jane Harrington -- Child in Spring Snowfall, 1934 p. 304 / Laura Long -- Appalachian Spring p. 306 / Libby Falk Jones -- Clingmans Dome Before Thanksgiving p. 307 / Susan Deer Cloud -- In Tennessee I Found a Firefly p. 309 / Jeremy Michael Reed -- How to Avoid the Widow Maker p. 311 / Jim Minick -- Apis Mellifera p. 324 / Rosemary Royston -- Wine Is the Color of Blood p. 325 / Lisa Ezzard -- The Grandfather I Never Knew p. 327 / M. W. Smith -- Birdbrain p. 328 / Wayne Caldwell.

Summary:

"Mountains Piled upon Mountains features nearly fifty writers from across Appalachia sharing their place-based fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Moving beyond the tradition of transcendental nature writing, much of the work collected here engages current issues facing the region and the planet (such as hydraulic fracturing, water contamination, mountaintop removal, and deforestation), and provides readers with insights on the human-nature relationship in an era of rapid environmental change. This book includes a mix of new and recent creative work by established and emerging authors. The contributors write about experiences from northern Georgia to upstate New York, invite parallels between a watershed in West Virginia and one in North Carolina, and often emphasize connections between Appalachia and more distant locations. In the pages of Mountains Piled upon Mountains are celebration, mourning, confusion, loneliness, admiration, and other emotions and experiences rooted in place but transcending Appalachia's boundaries"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781946684905 paperback
1946684902 paperback
electronic book
9781946684912

Subject:

American literature Appalachian Region.
American literature
Appalachian Region Literary collections.
Appalachian Region

Form/genre:

Poetry
Fictional Work
poetry.
Literature
Fiction
Literary collections
Poésie.
Romans.
Littérature.

Added entries:

Cory, Jessica, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306604
Call No.: BIB 252157
Status: Available