Title: Raising the dead /
Authors: Rash, Ron, 1953-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Iris Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Loss (Psychology) Poetry; Mountain life Poetry; Appalachian Region, Southern Poetry.; North Carolina Poetry.
Contents: Last service -- Under Jocassee -- Panther tree -- The vanquished -- The search -- Jocassee, 1916 -- Fall creek -- Shee-show -- On the Keowee -- At Boone Creek Landing -- Deep water -- Compass Creek -- Watauga County: 1803 -- In Dismal Gorge -- The release -- Whipporwill -- Antietam -- Shelton Laurel -- The dowry -- Black-eyed Susans -- Calenture -- Wolf Laurel -- Speckled trout -- In the barn -- Above Goshen Creek -- Barn burning: 1967 -- Work, for the night is coming -- The debt -- Watauga County, 1974 -- Beyond -- Burning the field -- At Reid Hartley's junkyard -- Spear point -- The emerging -- Kephart in the Smokies -- Barbed wire -- The request -- Madison County: 1934 -- Brightleaf -- At Leicester Cemetery -- Coke box -- Madison County: June, 1999 -- The wolves at the Asheville Zoo -- The watch -- Bartram leaves Jocassee -- Carolina parakeet -- Taking down the lines -- A homestead on the horsepasture -- Bottomland -- Tremor -- Analepsis -- Death's harbors -- The day the gates closed -- Beyond the dock -- The men who raised the dead.