Poetry collection / contemporary American

In Praise of Motels

Literature & Fiction

Pamela Steed Hill

Poetry

Blair Mountain Press

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

Victor Depta

Dramas & Plays

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

These poems connect people living in disparate times and places. Drawing on her life in Appalachia and a brief visit to China in the mid-1990s, the author analyzes the ordinary and the exotic, evoking in one poem the stoicism of prisoners' families on visiting day at an Ohio prison and in another the sensuality of the imperial court strolling through the summer palace near Beijing. Popular figures, such as Mohammed Ali, are depicted as sharing the same heroism as teenage soldiers on China's revolutionary long march. Jenny Wiley escapes from her Shawnee captors. A skinny young entrepreneur dies trapped in a Kentucky cave he hoped to open to tourists. Daniel Boone, Amelia Earhart, Li Po, Einstein's brain, and Osceola's head all figure in this poetic melee.

Like the Mountains of China

Edwina Pendarvis

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

The Simultaneous Mountain: Essays on Mysticism and Poetry

Victor M. Depta

<p>A collection of poetry from 1932 to 2006, the 80 authors in Coal features some of Appalachia's finest writers speaking on Miners and Work, Disasters and Mining, Families and Communities, Life after the Mines, Environmental Degradation, and Resistance. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of books, films and Web sites about coal and central Appalachia.</p>

Coal: A Poetry Anthology

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