Description:
Two Appalachian men dig deep--with poetry as their working tools--into their hearts to settle up with the loss of their fathers.
21st Century Poets, No. 48
Review Quotes:
I suppose many poems spring from immediacy and owe themselves to the first response to an event or circumstance. But the poems I prefer have spent long years brooding and have the benefit of reflection. That is the case for the poems in this book that begin in graveyards and go back into regional, American, and human history. Back into the roots of these two primal poets, to a point where neither voice is known without the other. The passage of time for all of us is always an anguish and a gift. A Little Light in the Grave is a book that brings us both and I am grateful for it.
--Maurice Manning, author of Snakedoctor and Bucolics
--Maurice Manning