Wild Sweet Notes : Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry 1950-1999 - Hardcover

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With insights into Japanese flower gardening and hog butchering, into mother-daughter relations and horse trading, in verse that is wistful or bright or drenched in rural beauty, "Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry" surprises and delights. . . . This varied collection of remarkably high poetic quality will enchant readers throughout the English-speaking world. Over 300 poems from more than 110 living poets and approximately 20 deceased poets are featured.

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Barbara Smith, co-editor, is a poet, editor, and writer active in many community development projects in Barbour County, West Virginia. She is a retired Dean of Humanities at Alderson-Broaddus College, Philippi, West Virginia.

Kirk Judd, co-editor, is a poet, workshop leader, and co-founder of Allegheny Echoes, a festival of music and the performing arts. He is a Quality Engineer-Advanced with Special Metals Corporation in Huntington, West Virginia.

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"An ode to West Virginia.... A wealth of knowledge, compassion, and inspiration." -- Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail

"Precise observation, a careful ear, devotion to detail....Lucid and engaging. Voices, lore, and landscape...resound distinctively." -- Foreword Magazine, September 2000

"The 400-plus page collection brings together many of the Mountain State's finest poets and some of their best work." -- West Virginia Executive Magazine

Over the mountains, throughout the land, the stars are out. They are West Virginia poets brought together... -- Grace Cavalieri, Producer, "The Poet and the Poem" on National Public Radio

The poems in Wild Sweet Notes will tug at the heartstrings of those who know the Mountain State. -- WV University Alumni Magazine - Summer 2001

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