Kentucky's twelve days of Christmas
Subtitle: a literary anthology
By: edited by James B. Goode
Contributors: Kentucky Monthly (Firm); Vested Interest Publications
Publisher: Kentucky Monthly
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Frankfort, KY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780615678610
Subjects: Christmas; Literary collections; American Christmas stories; Christmas poetry
Description: A collection of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, most not previously anthologized, ranging in theme from the nostalgic to examinations of the dysfunctional side of the Christmas season.
Notes: "[P]ublished by Vested Interest Publications/Kentucky Monthly"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: The first day of Christmas.  The cherry tree carol / Francis James Child; title: Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren; title: from Sonnets at Christmas 1934 : This is the day His hour of life draws near ; Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky / Allen Tate; title: The second day of Christmas.  The exit of Anse Dugmore / Irvin S. Cobb; title: December / Effie Waller Smith; title: Christmas card : for Edward / Hollis Summers; title: In memory of Hollis Summers / Dave Smith; title: The third day of Christmas.  Now that it is Christmas / John Jacob Niles; title: Christmas card poem : 1947 / Thomas Merton; title: Christmas Eve on Lonesome / John Fox, Jr.; title: One snowy night / Albery Allson Whitman; title: The fourth day of Christmas.  The dollmaker, chapter 18 ; Ode to a purple aluminum Christmas tree / Harriette Arnow; title: Gathering Christmas / James B. Goode; title: The fifth day of Christmas.  Remembering that it happened once / Wendell Berry; title: A change of heart ; Two births / James B. Goode; title: The sixth day of Christmas.  Maria Milagrosa, from Surrendered child / Karen Salyer McElmurray; title: What lies beneath / James B. Goode; title: Heartichoke / Lynn Pruett; title: The seventh day of Christmas.  Glomawr House / Joe Anthony; title: A certain small shepherd / Rebecca Caudill; title: Snow lines / Joe Anthony; title: The eighth day of Christmas.  New Year / Jane Stuart; title: A Christmas memory / Constance Alexander; title: Ascension / Lee Pennington; title: The Christmas chair / Jacqueline Kohl; title: The ninth day of Christmas.  Lipstick like Lindsay's / Gerald R. Toner; title: The birds' tree / Sallie Bingham; title: A hawk at Christmas / James B. Goode; title: A wet Christmas / Richard Taylor; title: The tenth day of Christmas.  One hundred and one Christmases / Stephen M. Vest; title: When Christmas was an orange in a red wool sock / James B. Goode; title: Little bird, from The birds of opulence / Crystal Wilkinson; title: The Christmas ornament / Don Boes; title: Elves / Frank X. Walker; title: The eleventh day of Christmas.  The tides / Leatha Kendrick; title: Nativity set / Leif Erickson; title: Waiting for Insanity Clause / Gary Walton; title: No Christmas in Kentucky / Phil Ochs; title: The twelfth day of Christmas.  Christmas in store / Tammy Ramsey; title: Shepherds in bathrobes / Georgia Green Stamper; title: There was a silence ; The Christmas snow angel / James B. Goode; title: Santa Claus is coming to town / James "Haven" Gillespie.