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Hack is a fictional story about a young cotton mill village derelict temporarily employed at a nursing home. It explores relationships that develop between the protagonist (Hack) and a group of nursing home patients in the twilight of their lives.
The story begins on a hot August night in 1962 in a small mill village in Alabama when Hack agrees to haul a load of moonshine for a local bootlegger and a bizarre adventure unfolds beginning with his arrest.
After his release from jail and spending several restless nights on a city park bench, Hack finds temporary employment at a nursing home.
Hardened by years on the streets and in the back alleys of the mill village, Hack finds himself unexpectedly moved by the isolation and loneliness of the patients. When he learns that one of the patients was deteriorating rapidly because he couldn't keep food down, Hack takes him to a private corner of the courtyard and gives him a toke of marijuana. The nursing home staff is astounded that night when the patient eats everything on his dinner tray, chats animatedly with everyone, and sleeps through the night without nausea.
When Hack is asked by one of the nurses to substitute for her as coordinator of a patients' social which is scheduled for the last week of his employment, an idea emerges and he enlists the help of his mill village friends.
When the patients are escorted and wheeled into the dayroom for the social, they are served tea and brownies made with marijuana leaves. As the chatter picks up, the program begins and each patient's life, one by one, is unrolled like a banner of glory.
Traces of marijuana are found in urine tests and Hack is arrested and sentenced tothree years in prison, and the story concludes with a poignant jailhouse scene in which the reader is left with the conviction that Hack's personal story is just beginning...

The poems in Bill King's first full-length collection, Bloodroot, articulate a life grounded in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains. We see memories of his youth in southwestern Virginia's Back Creek Valley, as well as poems of adult years in (and exploring the Monongahela Forest that surrounds) the mountain town of Elkins, West Virginia. These poems follow the root of a life nourished by and inseparable from garden soil, mountain rivers, and the hearths and kitchen table of home back to its origins. ""Grown Boy"" recalls a solitary childhood spent exploring creeks and two-lanes. In ""Black Kite,"" a mature father's sense of home and family take on depth and gratitude after a cancer diagnosis and chronic illness. Poems like ""This World Should Be Enough"" look beyond personal mortality to honor the mystery and beauty of wild landscapes long threatened by the violence of the extraction industry. Finally, ""To Have and To Hold"" pledges fealty to love in all of its forms, a stance that makes the book's meditations on mortality and acceptance, especially ""Fifty Gardens In"" as hopeful as they are honest. By turns narrative and lyrical, these accessible poems find metaphor in native landscapes: ""the pink and purple riddles"" of joe pye and ironweed, a ""cicada, / like a pressure canner thrumming on a stove,"" the red-tail hawks that ""carry the wounded skyward,"" the bloodroot ""whose petals fall just as soon / as the flower begins to bloom."" King's poems offer a language for how to love a world we must, ultimately, leave.