Red holler: contemporary Appalachian literature
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2013-10-15
Place of publication: Louisville KY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781936747665
Copyright date: 2013
Description: A diverse anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic essays by contemporary Appalachian writers. The editors have assembled a collection spanning ten years and the mountain range from Mississippi to New York, placing fresh new voices alongside widely known and celebrated authors. From Native American myth, African American urban legend, folk culture, and European ghost stories, this is an anthology of disenfranchised, yet robust peoples -- Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: label: Foreword
title: vii; label: Introduction by Pinckney Benedict
title: ix; label: FICTION; label: Karen Salyer McElmurray
title: That night
pagenum: 85; label: Donald Ray Pollock
title: Real life
pagenum: 89; label: Sara Pritchard
title: The very beautiful sad elegy for Bambi's dead mother
pagenum: 98; label: Ron Rash
title: Back of beyond
pagenum: 111; label: Alex Taylor
title: A lakeside penitence
pagenum: 160; label: Jacinda Townsend
title: Lackland
pagenum: 168; label: Charles Dodd White
title: Controlled burn
pagenum: 190; label: Crystal Wilkinson
title: Fixing things
pagenum: 200; label: GRAPHIC NARRATIVES; label: Pinckney Benedict
title: ORGO vs the FLATLANDERS
pagenum: 11; label: Ally Reeves
title: from <i>Southern Fried Masala</i>, "Origins"
pagenum: 127; label: NONFICTION; label: Dennis Covington
title: Desire
pagenum: 48; label: Jeff Mann
title: 715 Willey Street
pagenum: 56; label: Desirae Matherly
title: Vagina Dentata
pagenum: 73; label: Jessie van Eerden
title: Woman with spirits
pagenum: 177; label: POETRY; label: Nin Andrews
title: What the dead see
pagenum: 3; title: Sundays
pagenum: 3; title: Brief history of Melvin, my own personal bull
pagenum: 5; label: Makalani Bandele
title: Southbound #71
pagenum: 7; label: Brian Barker
title: Visions for the last night on earth
pagenum: 8; title: In the city of fallen rebels
pagenum: 9; label: Paula Bohince
title: Cleaning my father's house
pagenum: 45; title: Heaven
pagenum: 46; title: The children
pagenum: 46; label: Maurice Manning
title: Culture
pagenum: 68; title: Provincial thought
pagenum: 69; title: The geography of Yonder
pagenum: 70; label: Davis McCombs
title: Tobacco culture
pagenum: 81; title: First hard freeze
pagenum: 81; title: q & a
pagenum: 82; title: Trash fish or nights back home
pagenum: 83; label: R.T. Smith
title: The Carter Scratch
pagenum: 148; label: Bianca Spriggs
title: My kinda woman
pagenum: 150; title: Legend of Negro Mountain
pagenum: 151; title: I would make a good owl
pagenum: 152; label: Jane Springer
title: Salt Hill
pagenum: 154; title: What we call this frog hunting
pagenum: 155; title: Pretty Polly
pagenum: 157; title: Whiskey pastoral
pagenum: 157; label: Jake Adam York
title: Letter to be wrapped around a bottle of whiskey
pagenum: 207; title: Walt Whitman in Alabama
pagenum: 209; title: Knoxville girl
pagenum: 212; label: Artist Statements
title: 215; label: Contributors
title: 227; label: Credits
title: 232; label: Acknowledgements
title: 234; label: The Editors
title: 235