Description: A portrait of disappearing rural America, Going Across the Water honors working-class life through reflective poems on memory, nature, and change in Pennsylvania's Appalachian landscapes. With clarity and insight, Harry Humes captures coal-country labor, family, and quiet epiphanies that continue to resonate today.
Review Quotes: "Here is the breadth of a life attentive to yarrow and cicadas, damselflies and bloodroot. Like the trout he loved, Harry Humes wrote poems of lithe beauty, of moving grace. He mapped his home ground in Appalachia line by line, showing us the hurt of those who mined it but never allowing us to forget how nature might still heal it."--Todd Davis, author of Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems