Red Holler

Contemporary Appalachian Literature
Herausgeber: Branscum, John; Thomas, Wayne

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology of contemporary Appalachian literature travels through housing projects, forest-stripped ravines, and trailer high-rises, exploring Appalachia's vibrant migrant tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sarabande Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781936747665
• ISBN-10: 1936747669
• Artikelnr.: 37519823

Autorenporträt

John E. Branscum grew up in the small-town trailer parks and inner-city housing projects of Kentucky, Arkansas, and California. He is currently a professor of creative writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs pedagogy committee, and text editor for Black and Grey Magazine. He is the recipient of the national Ursula K. Le Guin Award for Imaginative Fiction, several Academy of American Poets awards, and has made appearances in Best American Non-required Reading, and Best American Horror. Wayne Thomas is the author of plays, fiction, and essays. He teaches creative writing at Tusculum College, a small school located in the northeast Tennessee mountains. He is editor of The Tusculum Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Forward Introduction by Pinckney Benedict Fiction: Karen McElmurray
"That Night" Donald Ray Pollock
"Real Life" Sara Pritchard
"The Very Beautiful Sad Elegy for Bambi's Dead Mother" Ron Rash
"Back of Beyond" Alex Taylor
"A Lakeside Penitence" Jacinda Townsend
"Lackland" Charles Dodd White
"Controlled Burn" Crystal Wilkinson
"Fixing Things" Graphic Narratives: Pinckney Benedict
"ORGO vs the FLATLANDERS" Ally Reeves
"Southern Fried Masala" Nonfiction: Dennis Covington
"Desire" Jeff Mann
"715 Willey Street" Desirae Matherly
"Vagina Dentata" Jessie van Eerden
"Woman with Spirits" Poetry: Nin Andrews
"What the Dead See
" "Sundays
" "A Brief History of Melvin
My Own Personal Bull" Makalini Bandele
"Southbound #71" Brian Barker
"Visions for the Last Night on Earth
" "In the City of Fallen Rebels" Paula Bohince
"Cleaning My Father's House
" "Heaven
" "The Children" Maurice Manning
"Culture
" "The Geography of Yonder
" "Provincial Thought" Davis McCombs. "Tobacco Culture
" "First Hard Freeze
" "q & a
" "Trash Fish or Nights Back Home" R. T. Smith
"The Carter Scratch" Bianca Spriggs
"My Kinda Woman
" "Legend of Negro Mountain
" "I Would Make a Good Owl" Jane Springer
"What We Call This Frog Hunting
" "Pretty Polly
" "Pastoral" Jake Adam York
"Letter to Be Wrapped Around a Bottle of Whiskey
" "Walt Whitman in Alabama
" "Knoxville Girl"