Poems From Snow Hill Road

by Martin, Brent

• ISBN13: 9781883197230
• ISBN10: 1883197236
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-11
• Publisher: New Native Pr

Summary

Poetry. POEMS FROM SNOW HILL ROAD is a true bio-regional examination of place. In this case the place is the Smoky Mountains of the Blue Ridge in western North Carolina. While these poems reflect, perfectly, the place and its people, it could also be taken for almost anywhere in the U.S. where there is still a living regional culture and a rural landscape. Brent Martin has worked for most of his adult life for various Land Trusts and wilderness preservation organizations. He currently works for The Wilderness Society. These sensitive and well-crafted poems in a limited fine-editions printing reflect his committment and love of the natural world in all its many faces and extremities.

Table of Contents

Snow Hill Crows

Hunting for Camelias at Horseshoe Bend

Old Woman at Brush Creek

Mongrels on Snow Hill Road

William Bartram Enters Cowee Valley

The Attempted Lynching of Escomoe Howell

A Potential Lyncher Reflects Upon His Failed Attempt

Staking Tomatoes on Walt Whitman's Birthday

The Selling of the Grant Fields

Three Crows Chasing a Hawk

The Day We All Stayed Home

The Man at the Gallery

Waving at a Drunk

Men in the Woods

Meditation on a Ceiling Fan

This Place Is Killing Me

Vulture's Friend

The Fist Fight in Heaven

Buzzards at Sunset

Saturnalia

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