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| Chronology of Works | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| About the Editors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Easter Frock, from Come Go Home With Me | |
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| from Bastard Out of Carolina | |
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| from Five Minutes in Heaven | |
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| Ontological | |
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| Long Story | |
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| Sonnet for Her Labor | |
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| A Place with Promise | |
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| from This Day and Time | |
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| from Hunter's Horn | |
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| from Seedtime on the Cumberland | |
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| The First Ride | |
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| Neighbors | |
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| When Grandmother Wept | |
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| Cicada's Song | |
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| Someday in a Wood | |
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| The Stair | |
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| Women Die Like Trees | |
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| When Earth Becomes an "It" | |
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| Anorexia Bulimia Speaks from the Grave | |
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| A Time to Reweave, from Selu | |
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| A Time to Study Law, from Selu | |
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| Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise | |
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| Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift | |
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| from Behind the Blue Ridge | |
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| from Sara Will | |
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| from Dorie: Woman of the Mountains | |
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| Wildwood Flower | |
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| Bittersweet | |
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| Lineage | |
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| Easter | |
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| Mountain Time | |
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| from Sing for Freedom | |
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| 40, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet | |
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| 49, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet | |
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| from Maybe, The Last of the 'Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories | |
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| from Daytrips | |
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| from My Appalachia | |
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| Second Christmas | |
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| Spending the Night | |
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| Discipline | |
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| The Glad Gardener | |
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| from Wilder | |
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| The Boy | |
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| Hospitality | |
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| The Widow Man | |
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| Kivers | |
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| In Envy of Migration | |
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| Maps | |
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| About the Pelvis | |
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| Tick | |
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| The Hillbilly Vampire | |
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| The Vampire Ethnographer | |
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| No Minority | |
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| Homer-Snake, from Sweet Hollow | |
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| Sister | |
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| Sports Widow | |
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| from Call Home the Heart | |
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| Country | |
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| For Dr. Josefina Garcia & the "Tissue Committee" | |
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| Zora neale | |
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| from Life in the Iron Mills | |
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| Giving the Sun | |
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| The Hole | |
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| Twins | |
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| Poetics South | |
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| In a Time of Drought | |
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| Broadside | |
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| from Praise House | |
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| from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | |
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| This is what history is | |
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| A woman is segmented as an ant | |
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| Every open space fills with sky | |
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| Appalachia | |
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| Elegy For Jody | |
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| from Fiddling His Way to Fame, The Heart of Old Hickory | |
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| from Return the Innocent Earth | |
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| from The French Broad | |
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| from The Durket Sperret | |
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| from More than Moonshine | |
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| Granny Brock | |
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| Mountains Fill Up the Night | |
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| Appalachia, Where are your Hills? | |
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| from Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves, Heartwood | |
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| Irons At Her Feet | |
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| from Sight to the Blind | |
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| from Storming Heaven | |
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| from The Unquiet Earth | |
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| from Hannah Fowler | |
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| Griots, from Racism 101 | |
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| Knoxville, Tennessee | |
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| Revolutionary Dreams | |
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| A Poem Off Center | |
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| from A Southern Family | |
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| from The War at Home | |
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| from M.C. Higgins the Great | |
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| Writing Lessons (I.) | |
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| She | |
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| Writing Lessons (II.) | |
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| To her mother, lying in state | |
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| from A Circuit Rider's Wife | |
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| from The Hawk's Done Gone | |
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| from Past Titan Rock | |
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| Ms. Ida Mae, from Tough Customers and Other Stories | |
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| from My Great-Aunt Arizona | |
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| Momma's Letter | |
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| The Last Unmined Vein | |
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| from The Long Roll | |
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| from The Autobiography of Mother Jones | |
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| Life and Art in East Tennessee | |
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| Hooked Album Quilt, 1870 | |
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| Weather Rhymes | |
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| from Weeds | |
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| from No Place Like Home | |
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| The Familiar Level | |
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| Refusing a Spinal | |
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| from The Bean Trees | |
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| from Prodigal Summer | |
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| from Extended Learning, Farlanburg Stories | |
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| from Some Days There's Pie | |
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| from Coon Creek Girl | |
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| from To Make My Bread | |
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| from With A Hammer for My Heart | |
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| Where I'm From | |
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| Rings | |
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| Salvation | |
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| Growing Light | |
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| Mulberries | |
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| To My Daughter Going Off to College | |
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| Welcome to the Other Side | |
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| Good Luck Charm | |
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| from Christy | |
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| The Gifts of the Spirit | |
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| Rain | |
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| Saved | |
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| Ascension | |
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| from The McCoys | |
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| from The Songcatcher | |
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| from Up the Hill toward Home | |
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| from Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey | |
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| Many Waters | |
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| For My Grandmother Who Knows How | |
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| The Hollow | |
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| Mother Milking | |
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| Music | |
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| Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report | |
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| Deep Mining | |
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| Sunday Morning, 1950 | |
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| The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson | |
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| Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia | |
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| The Other Woman | |
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| Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child) | |
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| Hill Daughter | |
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| Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River | |
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| from The Milkweed Ladies | |
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| Lanterns and Lamps | |
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| First Plowing in the Hills | |
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| from The Spirit of the Mountains | |
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| from The Edge of the Woods | |
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| Seventh Grades | |
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| Breadstuff | |
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| All Those Nights | |
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| Under The Earth | |
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| The Way Back | |
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| Story is a Woman | |
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| Solidarity in the Night | |
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| Ahlawe Usv' Tsigesvgi | |
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| Rumors, from Red Woman With Backward Eyes | |
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| from In the Tennessee Mountains | |
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| Briers, from Brier Country: Stories from the Blue Valley | |
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| from Machine Dreams | |
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| from Motherkind | |
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| Nativity | |
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| Echocardiogram | |
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| The Calling | |
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| In the Kitchen We String Beans | |
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| Clarissa and the Second Coming | |
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| When You Lose a Child | |
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| Snake Dreams | |
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| July 18, 1966 | |
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| Woman Writer | |
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| I Used To Be A Teacup | |
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| Discovered | |
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| How Do You Remember Him? | |
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| from Singing Family of the Cumberlands | |
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| from The Time of Man | |
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| from Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States | |
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| from Missing May | |
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| Pink | |
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| Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair | |
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| Liza's Monday | |
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| The Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk | |
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| All On A Summer's Afternoon | |
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| Legacy For Rachel | |
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| from Addie | |
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| from The Killing Ground | |
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| Why I Write | |
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| Fat Sestina | |
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| Spellcheck | |
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| from Cabins in the Laurel | |
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| Appalachian Winter | |
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| from Our Mountain | |
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| Homecoming | |
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| Kathy | |
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| My Father. His Rabbits | |
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| Backwoods Haiku | |
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| from What My Heart Wants to Tell | |
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| Bad News | |
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| And This Is The Way To Be Poor | |
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| The Language of Poetry | |
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| Memories of Home | |
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| from Saving Grace | |
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| Cycles from Transparencies | |
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| Where Stuarts Lie | |
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| Roots | |
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| Composition | |
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| from Big Stone Gap | |
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| Economy | |
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| New Poor | |
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| A Dry Spring | |
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| Our Bodies Remember | |
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| Force | |
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| from Shadow of the Mountain | |
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| My Boy Elroy, from In the Mountains of America | |
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| from The Raising, From the Bottom Up | |
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| from The Morning Cool | |
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| More Women Writing in Appalachia | |
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| A Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index of Titles and Authors | |
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| Permissions | |