Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in WV

Irene McKinney served as Poet Laureate for the State of West Virginia from her appointment in 1994 by then Governor Gaston caperton until her death in 2012.

This is as closely-knit an anthology as you are ever likely to see. It is as though a large, extended family were drawing on the same store of family stories, jokes, symbols, landscapes, animals, trees, language, and vernacular. How many snakes are in this book? How many foxes, possums, fossils? And how very many coal mines? But it is not merely local references that unite these writers. There is a larger vision that ties these works together.

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