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Women Writing in Appalachia

By: Sandra L. Ballard (Editor), Patricia L. Hudson (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 August 2004

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Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia is a landmark anthology that brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy Allison, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Annie Dillard, Nikki Giovanni, Denise Giardina, Barbara Kingsolver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Janice Holt Giles, George Ella Lyon, Sharyn McCrumb, and Lee Smith. Editors Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson offer a diverse sampling of time periods and genres, established authors and emerging voices. From regional favorites to national bestsellers, this unprecedented gathering of Appalachian voices displays the remarkable talent of the region's women writers who've made their mark at home and across the globe.

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This is a collection to brag about and treasure, and most of all to read and re-read, as we learn, are challenged, enriched, delighted. - Robert Morgan, author of Brave Enemies and Gap Creek.

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Chronology of Works	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xxix
About the Editors	p. xxxi
Introduction	p. 1
The Easter Frock, from Come Go Home With Me	p. 8
from Bastard Out of Carolina	p. 12
from Five Minutes in Heaven	p. 19
Ontological	p. 24
Long Story	p. 25
Sonnet for Her Labor	p. 27
A Place with Promise	p. 28
from This Day and Time	p. 32
from Hunter's Horn	p. 38
from Seedtime on the Cumberland	p. 40
The First Ride	p. 42
Neighbors	p. 49
When Grandmother Wept	p. 49
Cicada's Song	p. 50
Someday in a Wood	p. 51
The Stair	p. 51
Women Die Like Trees	p. 54
When Earth Becomes an "It"	p. 54
Anorexia Bulimia Speaks from the Grave	p. 55
A Time to Reweave, from Selu	p. 56
A Time to Study Law, from Selu	p. 57
Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise	p. 61
Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift	p. 64
from Behind the Blue Ridge	p. 71
from Sara Will	p. 74
from Dorie: Woman of the Mountains	p. 79
Wildwood Flower	p. 83
Bittersweet	p. 84
Lineage	p. 84
Easter	p. 86
Mountain Time	p. 87
from Sing for Freedom	p. 91
40, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet	p. 97
49, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet	p. 98
from Maybe, The Last of the 'Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories	p. 99
from Daytrips	p. 102
from My Appalachia	p. 108
Second Christmas	p. 114
Spending the Night	p. 114
Discipline	p. 115
The Glad Gardener	p. 116
from Wilder	p. 119
The Boy	p. 124
Hospitality	p. 125
The Widow Man	p. 125
Kivers	p. 126
In Envy of Migration	p. 130
Maps	p. 131
About the Pelvis	p. 133
Tick	p. 134
The Hillbilly Vampire	p. 138
The Vampire Ethnographer	p. 139
No Minority	p. 140
Homer-Snake, from Sweet Hollow	p. 143
Sister	p. 150
Sports Widow	p. 151
from Call Home the Heart	p. 154
Country	p. 158
For Dr. Josefina Garcia & the "Tissue Committee"	p. 159
Zora neale	p. 161
from Life in the Iron Mills	p. 164
Giving the Sun	p. 170
The Hole	p. 170
Twins	p. 171
Poetics South	p. 172
In a Time of Drought	p. 173
Broadside	p. 173
from Praise House	p. 176
from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	p. 181
This is what history is	p. 185
A woman is segmented as an ant	p. 185
Every open space fills with sky	p. 186
Appalachia	p. 190
Elegy For Jody	p. 191
from Fiddling His Way to Fame, The Heart of Old Hickory	p. 194
from Return the Innocent Earth	p. 199
from The French Broad	p. 204
from The Durket Sperret	p. 210
from More than Moonshine	p. 215
Granny Brock	p. 217
Mountains Fill Up the Night	p. 218
Appalachia, Where are your Hills?	p. 219
from Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves, Heartwood	p. 222
Irons At Her Feet	p. 225
from Sight to the Blind	p. 229
from Storming Heaven	p. 234
from The Unquiet Earth	p. 236
from Hannah Fowler	p. 242
Griots, from Racism 101	p. 247
Knoxville, Tennessee	p. 249
Revolutionary Dreams	p. 250
A Poem Off Center	p. 250
from A Southern Family	p. 254
from The War at Home	p. 259
from M.C. Higgins the Great	p. 264
Writing Lessons (I.)	p. 269
She	p. 270
Writing Lessons (II.)	p. 271
To her mother, lying in state	p. 272
from A Circuit Rider's Wife	p. 276
from The Hawk's Done Gone	p. 279
from Past Titan Rock	p. 284
Ms. Ida Mae, from Tough Customers and Other Stories	p. 289
from My Great-Aunt Arizona	p. 294
Momma's Letter	p. 299
The Last Unmined Vein	p. 300
from The Long Roll	p. 305
from The Autobiography of Mother Jones	p. 309
Life and Art in East Tennessee	p. 312
Hooked Album Quilt, 1870	p. 313
Weather Rhymes	p. 317
from Weeds	p. 321
from No Place Like Home	p. 325
The Familiar Level	p. 327
Refusing a Spinal	p. 328
from The Bean Trees	p. 332
from Prodigal Summer	p. 336
from Extended Learning, Farlanburg Stories	p. 340
from Some Days There's Pie	p. 348
from Coon Creek Girl	p. 355
from To Make My Bread	p. 360
from With A Hammer for My Heart	p. 366
Where I'm From	p. 370
Rings	p. 371
Salvation	p. 372
Growing Light	p. 373
Mulberries	p. 376
To My Daughter Going Off to College	p. 377
Welcome to the Other Side	p. 379
Good Luck Charm	p. 380
from Christy	p. 383
The Gifts of the Spirit	p. 388
Rain	p. 392
Saved	p. 393
Ascension	p. 394
from The McCoys	p. 397
from The Songcatcher	p. 402
from Up the Hill toward Home	p. 409
from Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey	p. 415
Many Waters	p. 421
For My Grandmother Who Knows How	p. 423
The Hollow	p. 424
Mother Milking	p. 425
Music	p. 426
Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report	p. 430
Deep Mining	p. 431
Sunday Morning, 1950	p. 432
The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson	p. 433
Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia	p. 434
The Other Woman	p. 437
Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child)	p. 437
Hill Daughter	p. 438
Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River	p. 439
from The Milkweed Ladies	p. 440
Lanterns and Lamps	p. 443
First Plowing in the Hills	p. 444
from The Spirit of the Mountains	p. 447
from The Edge of the Woods	p. 451
Seventh Grades	p. 453
Breadstuff	p. 454
All Those Nights	p. 456
Under The Earth	p. 457
The Way Back	p. 458
Story is a Woman	p. 461
Solidarity in the Night	p. 462
Ahlawe Usv' Tsigesvgi	p. 463
Rumors, from Red Woman With Backward Eyes	p. 464
from In the Tennessee Mountains	p. 470
Briers, from Brier Country: Stories from the Blue Valley	p. 474
from Machine Dreams	p. 480
from Motherkind	p. 484
Nativity	p. 489
Echocardiogram	p. 490
The Calling	p. 492
In the Kitchen We String Beans	p. 496
Clarissa and the Second Coming	p. 497
When You Lose a Child	p. 498
Snake Dreams	p. 500
July 18, 1966	p. 503
Woman Writer	p. 504
I Used To Be A Teacup	p. 505
Discovered	p. 506
How Do You Remember Him?	p. 507
from Singing Family of the Cumberlands	p. 510
from The Time of Man	p. 515
from Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States	p. 519
from Missing May	p. 523
Pink	p. 528
Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair	p. 529
Liza's Monday	p. 530
The Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk	p. 531
All On A Summer's Afternoon	p. 532
Legacy For Rachel	p. 533
from Addie	p. 536
from The Killing Ground	p. 539
Why I Write	p. 545
Fat Sestina	p. 546
Spellcheck	p. 548
from Cabins in the Laurel	p. 551
Appalachian Winter	p. 556
from Our Mountain	p. 562
Homecoming	p. 567
Kathy	p. 567
My Father. His Rabbits	p. 568
Backwoods Haiku	p. 569
from What My Heart Wants to Tell	p. 572
Bad News	p. 576
And This Is The Way To Be Poor	p. 577
The Language of Poetry	p. 578
Memories of Home	p. 581
from Saving Grace	p. 585
Cycles from Transparencies	p. 593
Where Stuarts Lie	p. 594
Roots	p. 594
Composition	p. 595
from Big Stone Gap	p. 598
Economy	p. 603
New Poor	p. 603
A Dry Spring	p. 604
Our Bodies Remember	p. 605
Force	p. 607
from Shadow of the Mountain	p. 610
My Boy Elroy, from In the Mountains of America	p. 615
from The Raising, From the Bottom Up	p. 625
from The Morning Cool	p. 630
More Women Writing in Appalachia	p. 635
A Selected Bibliography	p. 647
Index of Titles and Authors	p. 653
Permissions	p. 663
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