Light at the Seam
Joseph Bathanti
Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
Winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry
Winner of the Brockman-Campbell Award
Light at the Seam, a new collection from North Carolina poet Joseph Bathanti, is an exploration of mountaintop removal in southern Appalachian coal country. The volume illuminates and champions often invisible people residing, in a precarious moment in time, on the glorious, yet besieged, Appalachian earth. Their call to defend it, as well as their faith that the land will exact its own reckoning, constitutes a sacred as well as existential quest. Rooted in social and restorative justice, Light at the Seam contemplates the earth as fundamentally sacramental, a crucible of awe and mystery, able to regenerate itself and its people even as it succumbs to them. More than mere cautionary tale, this is a volume of hope and wonder.
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North Carolina poets, transcendental sublime, rural southern poetry, Appalachian literature, coal mining, grit lit, working class life, environmental justice, elegies, mountains