Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
	Marginal	13
	Independence Day, Terra Alta, West Virginia 1935	14
	Among Elms and Maples, Morgantown, West Virginia, August 1935	15
	Mining Camp Residents, West Virginia, July, 1935	16
	Spitting in the Leaves	17
	Long Story	18
	Ontological	21
	From Addie: A Memior	22
	Late Winter Snow: South of Morgantown, WV	36
	Leaving the Hills	37
	Driving the Gauley River, Listening to the Radio	39
	The Former Miner Returns from His First Day as a Service Worker	40
	Air	41
	The Sutton Pie Safe	42
	Odom	50
	Hymning the Kanawha	65
	Evening Song	73
	Extended Learning	74
	Memoria	93
	The Roads	94
	Granny Saunders	95
	The Long Traveller	96
	The Road	98
	The River	99
	Family Knots	100
	In Dubio	107
	In Aegri Somnia	108
	In Consideratione Praemissorum	109
	In Actu	110
	From Crum	112
	Aunt Anna	129
	The Peaceful Kingdom	131
	The Only Old Timer in the Neighborhood	133
	In Spring	136
	Rondal Lloyd	137
	The Burlap Bag	152
	Ruins in Reverse	162
	Listen	163
	My Friend Told Me	164
	The Wars of Heaven	165
	On the Edge of Highway 10 North	173
	Trilobites	176
	Fox Hunters	188
	The Mad Whore of Peachtree	204
	It Didn't Come from Hallmark	206
	When Your Ego Bloats	207
	Charlene's Ex	208
	Jolo	209
	Sin Boldly	224
	Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report	232
	Deep Mining	234
	Visiting my Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia	236
	Fodder	237
	For Women Who Have Been Patient All Their Lives	238
	Viridian Days	240
	Cheers	242
	Bess	243
	A Patch of Earth	259
	Night At The Commodore	262
	About the Contributors	267