Listen Here : Women Writing in Appalachia

by Ballard, Sandra L.

• ISBN13: 9780813190662
• ISBN10: 0813190665
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia is a landmark anthology that brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy Allison, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Annie Dillard, Nikki Giovanni, Denise Giardina, Barbara Kingsolver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Janice Holt Giles, George Ella Lyon, Sharyn McCrumb, and Lee Smith. Editors Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson offer a diverse sampling of time periods and genres, established authors and emerging voices. From regional favorites to national bestsellers, this unprecedented gathering of Appalachian voices displays the remarkable talent of the region's women writers who've made their mark at home and across the globe.

Author Biography

Sandra L. Ballard is the editor of Appalachian Journal and professor of English at Appalachian State University Patricia L. Hudson is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in American Heritage, Appalachian Heritage, and Southern Living

Table of Contents

Chronology of Works	xix
Acknowledgements	xxix
About the Editors	xxxi
Introduction	1	(5)
SHEILA KAY ADAMS	6	(4)
The Easter Frock, from Come Go Home With Me	8	(2)
DOROTHY ALLISON	10	(7)
from Bastard Out of Carolina	12	(5)
LISA ALTHER	17	(5)
from Five Minutes in Heaven	19	(3)
MAGGIE ANDERSON	22	(8)
Ontological	24	(1)
Long Story	25	(2)
Sonnet for Her Labor	27	(1)
A Place with Promise	28	(2)
ANNE W. ARMSTRONG	30	(6)
from This Day and Time	32	(4)
HARRIETTE SIMPSON ARNOW	36	(11)
from Hunter's Horn	38	(2)
from Seedtime on the Cumberland	40	(2)
The First Ride	42	(5)
SYLVIA TRENT AUXIER	47	(5)
Neighbors	49	(1)
When Grandmother Wept	49	(1)
Cicada's Song	50	(1)
Someday in a Wood	51	(1)
The Stair	51	(1)
MARILOU AWIAKTA	52	(10)
Women Die Like Trees	54	(1)
When Earth Becomes an "It"	54	(1)
Anorexia Bulimia Speaks from the Grave	55	(1)
A Time to Reweave, from Selu	56	(1)
A Time to Study Law, from Selu	57	(4)
Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise	61	(1)
ARTIE ANN BATES	62	(7)
Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift	64	(5)
FRANCES COURTENAY BAYLOR	69	(3)
from Behind the Blue Ridge	71	(1)
SUE ELLEN BRIDGERS	72	(5)
from Sara Will	74	(3)
FLORENCE COPE BUSH	77	(4)
from Doric Woman of the Mountains	79	(2)
KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER	81	(8)
Wildwood Flower	83	(1)
Bittersweet	84	(1)
Lineage	84	(2)
Easter	86	(1)
Mountain Time	87	(2)
CANDIE CARAWAN	89	(6)
from Sing for Freedom	91	(4)
JO CARSON	95	(11)
40, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet	97	(1)
49, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet	98	(1)
from Maybe, The Last of the 'Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories	99	(3)
from Daytrips	102	(4)
REBECCA CAUDILL	106	(6)
from My Appalachia	108	(4)
LILLIE D. CHAFFIN	112	(5)
Second Christmas	114	(1)
Spending the Night	114	(1)
Discipline	115	(1)
The Glad Gardener	116	(1)
LOLETTA CLOUSE	117	(6)
from Wilder	119	(4)
ANN COBB	123	(5)
The Boy	124	(1)
Hospitality	125	(1)
The Widow Man	125	(1)
Kivers	126	(2)
LISA COFFMAN	128	(8)
In Envy of Migration	130	(1)
Maps	131	(2)
About the Pelvis	133	(1)
Tick	134	(2)
AMY TIPTON CORTNER	136	(5)
The Hillbilly Vampire	138	(1)
The Vampire Ethnographer	139	(1)
No Minority	140	(1)
LOU VT. CRABTREE	141	(11)
Homer-Snake, from Sweet Hollow	143	(7)
Sister	150	(1)
Sports Widow	151	(1)
OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN [FIELDING BURKE]	152	(4)
from Call Home the Heart	154	(2)
DORIS DAVENPORT	156	(6)
Country	158	(1)
for Dr. Josefina Garcia & the "Tissue Committee"	159	(2)
zora neale	161	(1)
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS	162	(6)
from Life in the Iron Mills	164	(4)
ANN DEAGON	168	(6)
Giving the Sun	170	(1)
The Hole	170	(1)
Twins	171	(1)
Poetics South	172	(1)
In a Time of Drought	173	(1)
Broadside	173	(1)
ANGELYN DEBORD	174	(5)
from Praise House	176	(3)
ANNIE DILLARD	179	(4)
from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	181	(2)
HILDA DOWNER	183	(5)
This is what history is	185	(1)
A woman is segmented as an ant	185	(1)
Every open space fills with sky	186	(2)
MURIEL MILLER DRESSLER	188	(4)
Appalachia	190	(1)
Elegy For Jody	191	(1)
WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLE	192	(5)
from Fiddling His Way to Fame, The Heart of Old Hickory	194	(3)
WILMA DYKEMAN	197	(11)
from Return the Innocent Earth	199	(5)
from The French Broad	204	(4)
SARAH BARNWELL ELLIOTT	208	(5)
from The Durket Sperret	210	(3)
SIDNEY SAYLOR FARR	213	(7)
from More than Moonshine	215	(2)
Granny Brock	217	(1)
Mountains Fill Up the Night	218	(1)
Appalachia, Where are your Hills?	219	(1)
NIKKY FINNEY	220	(7)
from Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves, Heartwood	222	(3)
Irons At Her Feet	225	(2)
LUCY FURMAN	227	(4)
from Sight to the Blind	229	(2)
DENISE GIARDINA	231	(9)
from Storming Heaven	234	(2)
from The Unquiet Earth	236	(4)
JANICE HOLT GILES	240	(5)
from Hannah Fowler	242	(3)
NIKKI GIOVANNI	245	(7)
Griots, from Racism 101	247	(2)
Knoxville, Tennessee	249	(1)
Revolutionary Dreams	250	(1)
A Poem Off Center	250	(2)
GAIL GODWIN	252	(5)
from A Southern Family	254	(3)
CONNIE JORDAN GREEN	257	(5)
from The War at Home	259	(3)
VIRGINIA HAMILTON	262	(5)
from M.C. Higgins the Great	264	(3)
PAULETTA HANSEL	267	(7)
Writing Lessons (I.)	269	(1)
She	270	(1)
Writing Lessons (II.)	271	(1)
To her mother, lying in state	272	(2)
CORRA HARRIS	274	(3)
from A Circuit Rider's Wife	276	(1)
MILDRED HAUN	277	(5)
from The Hawk's Done Gone	279	(3)
ELLESA CLAY HIGH	282	(5)
from Past Titan Rock	284	(3)
MARY BOZEMAN HODGES	287	(5)
Ms. Ida Mae, from Tough Customers and Other Stories	289	(3)
GLORIA HOUSTON	292	(6)
from My Great Aunt Arizona	294	(4)
LEE HOWARD	298	(5)
Momma's Letter	299	(1)
The Last Unmined Vein	300	(3)
MARY JOHNSTON	303	(4)
from The Long Roll	305	(2)
MARY HARRIS "MOTHER" JONES	307	(4)
from The Autobiography of Mother Jones	309	(2)
JANE WILSON JOYCE	311	(4)
Life and Art in East Tennessee	312	(1)
Hooked Album Quilt, 1870	313	(2)
MAY JUSTUS	315	(4)
Weather Rhymes	317	(2)
EDITH SUMMERS KELLEY	319	(4)
from Weeds	321	(2)
LEATHA KENDRICK	323	(7)
from No Place Like Home	325	(2)
The Familiar Level	327	(1)
Refusing a Spinal	328	(2)
BARBARA KINGSOLVER	330	(8)
from The Bean Trees	332	(4)
from Prodigal Summer	336	(2)
LISA KOGER	338	(8)
from Extended Learning, Farlanburg Stories	340	(6)
CATHERINE LANDIS	346	(7)
from Some Days There's Pie	348	(5)
LILY MAY LEDFORD	353	(5)
from Coon Creek Girl	355	(3)
GRACE LUMPKIN	358	(6)
from To Make My Bread	360	(4)
GEORGE ELLA LYON	364	(10)
from With A Hammer for My Heart	366	(4)
Where I'm From	370	(1)
Rings	371	(1)
Salvation	372	(1)
Growing Light	373	(1)
LINDA PARSONS MARION	374	(7)
Mulberries	376	(1)
To My Daughter Going Off to College	377	(2)
Welcome to the Other Side	379	(1)
Good Luck Charm	380	(1)
CATHERINE MARSHALL	381	(5)
from Christy	383	(3)
BELINDA ANN MASON	386	(5)
The Gifts of the Spirit	388	(3)
KATHY L. MAY	391	(5)
Rain	392	(1)
Saved	393	(1)
Ascension	394	(2)
TRUDA WILLIAMS MCCOY	396	(4)
from The McCoys	397	(3)
SHARYN MCCRUMB	400	(7)
from The Songcatcher	402	(5)
JEANNE MCDONALD	407	(6)
from Up the Hill toward Home	409	(4)
KAREN SALYER MCELMURRAY	413	(6)
from Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey	415	(4)
LLEWELLYN MCKERNAN	419	(9)
Many Waters	421	(2)
For My Grandmother Who Knows How	423	(1)
The Hollow	424	(1)
Mother Milking	425	(1)
Music	426	(2)
IRENE MCKINNEY	428	(7)
Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report	430	(1)
Deep Mining	431	(1)
Sunday Morning, 1950	432	(1)
The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson	433	(1)
Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia	434	(1)
LOUISE MCNEILL	435	(7)
The Other Woman	437	(1)
Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child)	437	(1)
Hill Daughter	438	(1)
Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River	439	(1)
from The Milkweed Ladies	440	(2)
JANE MERCHANT	442	(3)
Lanterns and Lamps	443	(1)
First Plowing in the Hills	444	(1)
EMMA BELL MILES	445	(4)
from The Spirit of the Mountains	447	(2)
HEATHER ROSS MILLER	449	(6)
from The Edge of the Woods	451	(2)
Seventh Grades	453	(1)
Breadstuff	454	(1)
JANICE TOWNLEY MOORE	455	(4)
All Those Nights	456	(1)
Under The Earth	457	(1)
The Way Back	458	(1)
MARIJO MOORE	459	(9)
Story is a Woman	461	(1)
Solidarity in the Night	462	(1)
Ahlawe Usv' Tsigesvgi	463	(1)
Rumors, from Red Woman With Backward Eyes	464	(4)
MARY NOAILLES MURPREE	468	(4)
from In the Tennessee Mountains	470	(2)
ELAINE FOWLER PALENCIA	472	(6)
Briers, from Brier Country: Stories from the Blue Valley	474	(4)
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS	478	(9)
from Machine Dreams	480	(4)
from Motherkind	484	(3)
LYNN POWELL	487	(7)
Nativity	489	(1)
Echocardiogram	490	(2)
The Calling	492	(2)
BARBARA PRESNELL	494	(7)
In the Kitchen We String Beans	496	(1)
Clarissa and the Second Coming	497	(1)
When You Lose a Child	498	(2)
Snake Dreams	500	(1)
RITA SIMS QUILLEN	501	(7)
July 18, 1966	503	(1)
Woman Writer	504	(1)
I Used To Be A Teacup	505	(1)
Discovered	506	(1)
How Do You Remember Him?	507	(1)
JEAN RITCHIE	508	(5)
from Singing Family of the Cumberlands	510	(3)
ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS	513	(4)
from The Time of Man	515	(2)
ANNE NEWPORT ROYALL	517	(4)
from Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States	519	(2)
CYNTHIA RYLANT	521	(5)
from Missing May	523	(3)
BETTIE SELLERS	526	(3)
Pink	528	(1)
Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair	529	(5)
Liza's Monday	530	(1)
The Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk	531	(1)
All On A Summer's Afternoon	532	(1)
Legacy For Rachel	533	(1)
MARY LEE SETTLE	534	(9)
from Addie	536	(3)
from The Killing Ground	539	(4)
ANNE SHELBY	543	(6)
Why I Write	545	(1)
Fat Sestina	546	(2)
Spellcheck	548	(1)
MURIEL EARLEY SHEPPARD	549	(5)
from Cabins in the Laurel	551	(3)
BETSY SHOLL	554	(6)
Appalachian Winter	556	(4)
ELLEN HARVEY SHOWELL	560	(5)
from Our Mountain	562	(3)
BENNIE LEE SINCLAIR	565	(5)
Homecoming	567	(1)
Kathy	567	(1)
My Father. His Rabbits.	568	(1)
Backwoods Haiku	569	(1)
VERNA MAE SLONE	570	(4)
from What My Heart Wants to Tell	572	(2)
BARBARA SMITH	574	(5)
Bad News	576	(1)
And This Is The Way To Be Poor	577	(1)
The Language of Poetry	578	(1)
EFFIE WALLER SMITH	579	(4)
Memories of Home	581	(2)
LEE SMITH	583	(8)
from Saving Grace	585	(6)
JANE STUART	591	(5)
Cycles from Transparencies	593	(1)
Where Stuarts Lie	594	(1)
Roots	594	(1)
Composition	595	(1)
ADRIANA TRIGIANI	596	(6)
from Big Stone Gap	598	(4)
DANA WILDSMITH	602	(6)
Economy	603	(1)
New Poor	603	(1)
A Dry Spring	604	(1)
Our Bodies Remember	605	(2)
Force	607	(1)
SYLVIA WILKINSON	608	(5)
from Shadow of the Mountain	610	(3)
MEREDITH SUE WILLIS	613	(11)
My Boy Elroy, from In the Mountains of America	615	(9)
LEIGH ALLISON WILSON	624	(4)
from The Raising, From the Bottom Up	625	(3)
MARY ELIZABETH WITHERSPOON	628	(7)
from The Morning Cool	630	(5)
More Women Writing in Appalachia	635	(12)
A Selected Bibliography	647	(6)
Index of Titles and Authors	653	(10)
Permissions	663