| For the Mountain Laurel: Poems Contributor(s): Casteen, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820337994 ISBN-13: 9780820337999 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $18.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2010033683 |
| Series: VQR Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.26 lbs) 62 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In his second collection, Casteen moves inward from the physical labor and vernacular culture that shaped his first book, Free Union, yet continues to focus on landscape and human relationships. With poems arranged in the order in which they were completed (which in large part reflects the order in which they were first written), Casteen presents a poetic record of the experiences of solitude, marriage, fatherhood, loss, and recovery. The Carolina chickadee can be heard in this work, but so can Emmylou Harris singing with Gram Parsons; these poems dwell in the music of language, the hard truths of those who are no longer young, and the pleasures of the reflective life. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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.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. |