Description: Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, Todd Davis and Noah Davis celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes.
Brief description: NOAH DAVIS is the author of The Last Beast We Revel In and Of This River. His poems and prose have appeared in the Sun, the Christian Science Monitor, Southern Humanities Review, Best New Poets, Orion, and the Year's Best Sports Writing, among other publications. Davis earned an MFA from Indiana University and was raised along the Allegheny Front in Tipton, Pennsylvania.
Review Quotes: This book will appeal to people from a variety of literacies and perspectives and will open doors and hearts to the bounty of Northern Appalachia ecologies to enrich the lives of all.--Chris Green "author of The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism"