Appalachia is no stranger to loss. The region suffers regular
ecological devastation wrought by strip mining, fracking, and
deforestation as well as personal tragedy brought on by enduring
poverty and drug addiction. In Driving with the Dead, Appalachian
poet, teacher, and artist Jane Hicks weaves an earnest and
impassioned elegy for an imperiled yet doggedly optimistic people
and place. Exploring the roles that war, environment, culture, and
violence play in Appalachian society, the hard-hitting collection
is visceral and unflinchingly honest, mourning a land and people
devastated by economic hardship, farm foreclosures, and mountaintop
removal.
With empathy and a voice of experience, Hicks offers readers a
poignant collection of poems that addresses themes of grief and
death while also illustrating the beauty, grace, and resilience of
the Appalachian people. Invoking personal memories, she explores
how the loss of physical landscape has also devastated the region's
psychological landscape.
Graphic, bold, and heartfelt, Driving with the Dead is an honest
and compelling call to arms. Hicks laments the irreplaceable
treasures that we have lost but also offers wisdom for healing and
reconciliation.
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