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Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to
begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment
of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to
the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth. A
Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia-a hybrid literary and
natural history anthology-showcases sixty of the many species
indigenous to the region. Ecologically, culturally, and
artistically, Southern Appalachia is rich in paradox and
stereotype-defying complexity. Its species range from the iconic
and inveterate-such as the speckled trout, pileated woodpecker,
copperhead, and black bear-to the elusive and endangered-such as
the American chestnut, Carolina gorge moss, chucky madtom, and
lampshade spider. The anthology brings together art and science to
help the reader experience this immense ecological wealth. Stunning
images by seven Southern Appalachian artists and conversationally
written natural history information complement contemporary poems
from writers such as Ellen Bryant Voigt, Wendell Berry, Janisse
Ray, Sean Hill, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Deborah A. Miranda, Ron Rash,
and Mary Oliver. Their insights illuminate the wonders of the
mountain South, fostering intimate connections. The guide is an
invitation to get to know Appalachia in the broadest, most poetic
sense.
Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Robert
Wrigley
Rose McLarney has won acclaim for image-rich poems that explore
her native southern Appalachia and those who love and live and lose
on it. Her second collection broadens these investigations in poems
that examine the shape-shifting quality of memory, as seen in
folktales that have traveled across oceans and through centuries,
and in how we form recollections of our own lives. An opening
sequence presents contemporary ghost stories: men who gather at
dawn in the gas station parking lots of small towns; the mountain
lion that paces the edge of a receding tree line. A middle section
draws connections between Appalachia and Latin America, places that
share qualities of biological and cultural richness--places that
are threatened by modernization. A final sequence retells the
stories of earlier poems, posing questions about how we construct
our landscapes and frame our views.
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