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

This stunning volume gathers 134 poets writing within a fifty-year timespan on subjects as varied as Japanese flower gardening, hog-butchering, mother-daughter relations, and selling the farm. It went into its third printing in less than a year and has been used as atext in seven colleges and universities."A landmark in West Virginia literaryhistory (and) also a model of poetic celebration." -- Gordon Simmons, Coordinator, Artists Services, West Virginia Cultural Center, Charleston, WV "An ode to WestVirginia. . . . A wealth of knowledge, compassion, and inspiration." -- Charleston (WV) Gazette-Mail "Clear and bright, enough light to read by. This is what we've been waiting for." -- Grace Cavalieri, Producer, "The Poet and the Poem" on National Public Radio