| Free Union Contributor(s): Casteen, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 082033328X ISBN-13: 9780820333281 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $18.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2009 Annotation: The poems in this debut collection revolve around physical work, the Appalachian landscape, and family relationships. Casteen, for ten years a designer and builder of custom furniture, ranges from the farm to the shop floor, from the rivers of the Piedmont to the wooded shoulders of the Blue Ridge, and from the hyperattentiveness of childhood through the anxieties and joys of fatherhood. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2008037206 |
| Series: VQR Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.5" W x 8.54" (0.31 lbs) 68 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Genoways, Ted: - TED GENOWAYS is the author of five books, including This Blessed Earth and The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food. His honors include a James Beard Foundation Award, a National Press Club Award, an Association of Food Journalists Award, and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. He is a contributing editor at Mother Jones, the New Republic, and Pacific Standard. For nine years, he was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives outside Lincoln, Nebraska, with the photographer Mary Anne Andrei and their teenage son.Casteen, John: - JOHN CASTEEN teaches at Sweet Briar College. He lives in Earlysville, Virginia. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his poems have appeared in Ploughshares, the Georgia Review, the Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and other journals. He has contributed prose to Slate, VQR, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. |