A book of poems in which a genteel, mountain family in western Virginia express their spiritual and personal dilemmas.

A Doorkeeper in the House

Victor Depta

Ion Books

The Silence of Blackberries

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Blair Mountain Pr

It's rare to find West Virginia treated with such a combination of humor, environmental awareness, and acute human insight. Those tired, hillbilly stereotypes--the dumb young thing, the retarded youth, the incestuous kin--are yanked out of their literary doldrums, set on stage and made fresh, vivid, startlingly satirical yet individually real. And incidentally, the mature woman, the aging woman, is given the respect she deserves, though with a humorous twist or two along the way.

Plays from Blair Mountain : Four Comedies

Dramas & Plays

Blair Mountain Press

These poems record the unrequited love of a young man and a middle-aged woman for an elderly man.

Preparing a Room

These poems record the voices of those in the coal fields of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky whose lives have been affected by mountaintop removal coal mining.

Azrael on the Mountain

<p>The mountain people in these four comedies find suitcases stuffed with money, men with blue faces and gray faces, a stupendous welfare case, and ghosts in the moonlight.</p>

Mountains and Clouds: Four Comedies

Three decades (1946, 1957, 1968), three summers, and three families in southern West Virginia are the subjects of this trilogy of novels.

A West Virginia Trilogy

United States

The Little Henry Poems

An Afterthought of Light

Eternity Is That

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