Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
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...
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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.
Chronology of WorksAcknowledgementsAbout the EditorsIntroduction1The Easter Frock, from Come Go Home With Me8from Bastard Out of Carolina12from Five Minutes in Heaven19Ontological24Long Story25Sonnet for Her Labor27A Place with Promise28from This Day and Time32from Hunter's Horn38from Seedtime on the Cumberland40The First Ride42Neighbors49When Grandmother Wept49Cicada's Song50Someday in a Wood51The Stair51Women Die Like Trees54When Earth Becomes an "It"54Anorexia Bulimia Speaks from the Grave55A Time to Reweave, from Selu56A Time to Study Law, from Selu57Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise61Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift64from Behind the Blue Ridge71from Sara Will74from Dorie: Woman of the Mountains79Wildwood Flower83Bittersweet84Lineage84Easter86Mountain Time87from Sing for Freedom9140, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet9749, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet98from Maybe, The Last of the 'Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories99from Daytrips102from My Appalachia108Second Christmas114Spending the Night114Discipline115The Glad Gardener116from Wilder119The Boy124Hospitality125The Widow Man125Kivers126In Envy of Migration130Maps131About the Pelvis133Tick134The Hillbilly Vampire138The Vampire Ethnographer139No Minority140Homer-Snake, from Sweet Hollow143Sister150Sports Widow151from Call Home the Heart154Country158for Dr. Josefina Garcia & the "Tissue Committee"159zora neale161from Life in the Iron Mills164Giving the Sun170The Hole170Twins171Poetics South172In a Time of Drought173Broadside173from Praise House176from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek181This is what history is185A woman is segmented as an ant185Every open space fills with sky186Appalachia190Elegy For Jody191from Fiddling His Way to Fame, The Heart of Old Hickory194from Return the Innocent Earth199from The French Broad204from The Durket Sperret210from More than Moonshine215Granny Brock217Mountains Fill Up the Night218Appalachia, Where are your Hills?219from Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves, Heartwood222Irons At Her Feet225from Sight to the Blind229from Storming Heaven234from The Unquiet Earth236from Hannah Fowler242Griots, from Racism 101247Knoxville, Tennessee249Revolutionary Dreams250A Poem Off Center250from A Southern Family254from The War at Home259from M. C. Higgins the Great264Writing Lessons (I.)269She270Writing Lessons (II.)271To her mother, lying in state272from A Circuit Rider's Wife276from The Hawk's Done Gone279from Past Titan Rock284Ms. Ida Mae, from Tough Customers and Other Stories289from My Great-Aunt Arizona294Momma's Letter299The Last Unmined Vein300from The Long Roll305from The Autobiography of Mother Jones309Life and Art in East Tennessee312Hooked Album Quilt, 1870313Weather Rhymes317from Weeds321from No Place Like Home325The Familiar Level327Refusing a Spinal328from The Bean Trees332from Prodigal Summer336from Extended Learning, Farlanburg Stories340from Some Days There's Pie348from Coon Creek Girl355from To Make My Bread360from With A Hammer for My Heart366Where I'm From370Rings371Salvation372Growing Light373Mulberries376To My Daughter Going Off to College377Welcome to the Other Side379Good Luck Charm380from Christy383The Gifts of the Spirit388Rain392Saved393Ascension394from The McCoys397from The Songcatcher402from Up the Hill toward Home409from Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey415Many Waters421For My Grandmother Who Knows How423The Hollow424Mother Milking425Music426Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report430Deep Mining431Sunday Morning, 1950432The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson433Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia434The Other Woman437Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child)437Hill Daughter438Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River439from The Milkweed Ladies440Lanterns and Lamps443First Plowing in the Hills444from The Spirit of the Mountains447from The Edge of the Woods451Seventh Grades453Breadstuff454All Those Nights456Under The Earth457The Way Back458Story is a Women461Solidarity in the Night462Ahlawe Usv' Tsigesvgi463Rumors, from Red Woman With Backward Eyes464from In the Tennessee Mountains470Briers, from Brier Country: Stories from the Blue Valley474from Machine Dreams480from Motherkind484Nativity489Echocardiogram490The Calling492In the Kitchen We String Beans496Clarissa and the Second Coming497When You Lose a Child498Snake Dreams500July 18, 1966503Woman Writer504I Used To Be A Teacup505Discovered506How Do You Remember Him?507from Singing Family of the Cumberlands510from The Time of Man515from Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States519from Missing May523Pink528Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair529Liza's Monday530The Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk531All On A Summer's Afternoon532Legacy For Rachel533from Addie536from The Killing Ground539Why I Write545Fat Sestina546Spellcheck548from Cabins in the Laurel551Appalachian Winter556from Our Mountain562Homecoming567Kathy567My Father. His Rabbits568Backwoods Haiku569from What My Heart Wants to Tell572Bad News576And This Is The Way To Be Poor577The Language of Poetry578Memories of Home581from Saving Grace585Cycles from Transparencies593Where Stuarts Lie594Roots594Composition595from Big Stone Gap598Economy603New Poor603A Dry Spring604Our Bodies Remember605Force607from Shadow of the Mountain610My Boy Elroy, from In the Mountains of America615from The Raising, From the Bottom Up625from The Morning Cool630
\ From the Publisher"A textbook companion for anyone interested in women's literature -- or anyone interested in a more complete view of American literature than that found in most textbooks." -- Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel\ "A remarkable accomplishment, bringing together the work of 105 female Appalachian writers saying what they want to, and saying it in impressive bodies of literature." -- Lexington Herald-Leader\ "A remarkable new anthology of 105 Appalachian women writers, many of whom have been forgotten or marginalized by the mainstream literary establishment. One of the keenest pleasures in Listen Here lies in its diversity of voices and genres." -- Material Culture\ "An important contribution to Appalachian literary life." -- Mountain Eagle\ "Collects work by 105 Appalachian writers, including Gail Godwin, Lee Smith, and Barbara Kingsolver, composed during the past 170 years." -- Raleigh (NC) News & Observer\ "A comprehensive and unsurpassed anthology of women writers from Appalachia.... Exceptional in diversity and scope." -- Southern Historian\ "A number of wonderful gems [are] sprinkled throughout the 600 plus pages." -- Red Raven Circling (redravencircling.wordpress.com)\ \ \
