First published in 1937, Hounds on the Mountain evokes Still's
personal experiences of Eastern Kentucky through reflective folk
poems describing Appalachian mountain life from birth through
death. Written during the Great Depression, the collection
emphasizes a collective reliance on the earth and the primacy of
nature that Still observed from the seclusion of his thirty-one
acre home in Knott County, Kentucky. The "Dean of Appalachian
Literature" describes the changing landscape of his adopted
community as a tale of personal and environmental erosion. In many
ways the author asks his readers to better protect this fragile
ecosphere and set the stage for his rise to eminence in the
literary field. Still's regional focus on the self-made
authenticity of community artisans also reminded American readers
during the Great Depression that local economies needed to be
supported just as much as those at the national and global level.
Both in prose and product, Hounds on the Mountain allows today's
audiences to appreciate the book as both literature and cultural
symbolism of Appalachian life as it exists then and now.
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