Description:
In this incandescent and profound collection, beloved and award-winning poet, novelist, and short-story writer Ron Rash channels the rhythms of life in Appalachia, deftly capturing the panoply of individuals who are its heart.
With an eye for the surprising and vibrant detail, Rash powerfully captures the sorrows of this wondrous world he knows intimately. As B.H. Fairchild has noted, "There is nothing else quite like this work in American poetry at the present time, and we desperately need it." Illuminating and indelible, Poems demonstrates Rash's rich talents and confirms his legacy as a standard-bearer for the literature of the American South.
Brief description:
Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall, in addition to four prizewinning novels, including The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.
Review Quotes:
"Rash illuminates his dark material with humor and tenderness...The elegies for a landscape and its inhabitants in POEMS: New and Selected leave us with a renewed sense of how 'too much too soon disappears'" - New York Times Book Review