What is included with this book?
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xiii |
Selected prose | |
Clods of Southern Earth: Introduction (1946) | p. 3 |
The First Jew I Ever Met and the Devil's Den (1985) | p. 9 |
Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls (1979) | p. 14 |
Harry Harrison Kroll: An Essay (1986) | p. 18 |
Knott County, Kentucky: A Study (1932) | p. 22 |
Sweatshops in the Schools (1933) | p. 29 |
Georgia Wanted Me Dead or Alive (1934) | p. 30 |
Let Freedom Ring (1936) | p. 34 |
Thoughts of a Kentucky Miner (1936) | p. 36 |
Tobe-Boy (1940) | p. 38 |
Dreams (1944) | p. 42 |
Georgia Crisis (1947) | p. 44 |
Speaking of the Poet (1951) | p. 50 |
West Answers VFW's Letter (1955) | p. 51 |
We Southerners Have a Rendezvous with Destiny (1956) | p. 55 |
The Death of Old Major (1966) | p. 61 |
Jesus, the Quiet Revolutionary (1967) | p. 63 |
Romantic Appalachia; or, Poverty Pays If You Ain't Poor (1969) | p. 66 |
People's Cultural Heritage in Appalachia (1971) | p. 72 |
Robert Tharin: Biography of a Mountain Abolitionist (ca. 1970) | p. 79 |
In a Land of Plenty: No Copyright (1982-85) | p. 95 |
Selected poems | |
From Crab-Grass (1931) | |
Dedication | p. 99 |
Crab-Grass | p. 99 |
Bill Dalton's Wife | p. 100 |
Ole Kim Mulkey | p. 101 |
When I Am Old | p. 101 |
Denmark | p. 102 |
Mountain Reverie | p. 102 |
Mountaineer's Desire | p. 103 |
To-- | p. 104 |
Prayer | p. 105 |
In Potters Field | p. 105 |
From Deep, Deep Down in Living (n.d.) | |
Deep, Deep Down in Living | p. 107 |
Mountain Widow | p. 107 |
Mountain Boy | p. 108 |
Harlan Portraits | p. 109 |
Brown Brother | p. 111 |
Epitaphs | p. 111 |
From Between the Plow Handles (1932) | |
A'Callin' Home th' Hogs | p. 112 |
Dark Winds | p. 113 |
Scratching in Memory | p. 114 |
I've Seen God | p. 115 |
Highlander Youth | p. 115 |
Between the Plow Handles | p. 116 |
From Toil and Hunger (1940) | |
Funeral Notes | p. 118 |
Anger | p. 119 |
What Shall a Poet Sing | p. 120 |
Symbols | p. 120 |
Visit | p. 121 |
Toil and Hunger | p. 121 |
Southern Nights | p. 122 |
Dark Night | p. 123 |
Hungry Old River | p. 124 |
Song of the Saw | p. 125 |
Stillborn | p. 127 |
Seeker | p. 128 |
They Take Their Stand | p. 129 |
Clodhopper | p. 130 |
Night on a Mill Hill | p. 131 |
Homecoming | p. 132 |
My South | p. 133 |
Georgia Mother | p. 135 |
From Clods of Southern Earth (1946) | |
Look Here, America | p. 137 |
Miner's Widow | p. 138 |
Should I Have Said | p. 139 |
And I Have Loved | p. 141 |
Harlan Coal Digger, 1934 | p. 142 |
These I Remember | p. 143 |
Voice of the Cracker | p. 144 |
No Lonesome Road | p. 145 |
From The Road Is Rocky (1951) | |
There's Anger in the Land | p. 147 |
Sad, Sad America | p. 148 |
Question Mark | p. 149 |
Oh, Pity Those | p. 150 |
Advice to Would-Be Poets | p. 151 |
Where Tears of Sorrow | p. 151 |
Four Gifts for Man | p. 152 |
The Dangerous Ones | p. 153 |
These Things | p. 155 |
Remember Me | p. 155 |
These Songs of Mine | p. 155 |
From O Mountaineers! (1974) | |
Obituary for Despair | p. 157 |
The Kennedy Baby | p. 158 |
Automated Miner | p. 158 |
Confession | p. 159 |
Stereotypes | p. 160 |
The Blessed | p. 161 |
For These Sad Ashes | p. 161 |
If I Could Make You | p. 168 |
Hospital Waiting: May 8, 1963 | p. 169 |
Old Homeplace | p. 173 |
There'll Be a Tomorrow | p. 174 |
Mountain Heritage | p. 176 |
Appalachian Blues | p. 176 |
From In a Land of Plenty (1982-1985) | |
When I Read the Report | p. 180 |
Girl of Matoaka | p. 182 |
Poor Little Rich Kids | p. 183 |
Funeral Notes 2 | p. 184 |
Lolita Lebrun | p. 185 |
Visit to Lolita Lebrun's Home | p. 186 |
Great Day A-Coming | p. 186 |
They Who Exploit | p. 187 |
All of Them | p. 188 |
My Poem | p. 189 |
Something of America | p. 190 |
Afterword | p. 195 |
Notes to the Prose and Poems | p. 205 |
A Don West Bibliography | p. 217 |
Index | p. 219 |
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