VOLUME 39, NOS. 1-2 (FALL 2011/WINTER 2012)   $20.00  ***COMING SOON*** 

• Kathy Giebenhain "Forget Beauty" (poem) ...5
  SIGNS OF THE TIMES...6  
  
• THE POETS ... 21
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR by Jamie Ross and Ross Spears, Barbara Ellen Smith, Steve Fisher,
  Emily Satterwhite, and Phillip Obermiller...22
  
• Kathy Whitson "Midwife" (poem) ... 27
• Harold Branam "On Reading McCarthy's The Road" (poem) ...34
• Glenis Redmond "Churn" ...35
• Glenis Redmond "Comfort Food" ...35
• "Do What Lights Your Fire": An Interview with Ron Lewis
  by Ashley Brewer, Donna Corriher, Jesse Edgerton, Hannah Furgiuele, Coty Hogue, Rebecca Jones,
  Blaze Edward Pappas, Shannon Perry, with Patricia D. Beaver...36
• Leatha Kendrick "Animal Husbandry" (poem) ...55
• Industrialization's Threat to Vocational Calling in Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven
  by Martha Greene Eads...56
• Kathy Giebenhain "Miss Hydrolic Fracturing" (poem) ...71
• Gay Liberation Comes to Appalachian State University (1969-1979) by Kathryn Staley...72
• “The Place You Go to Tell the Truth”: Gender in Irene McKinney’s Vivid Companion
  by Boyd Creasman...92
• Kathy Giebenhain "Health Insurance in the USA" (poem)...106
• Kathy Whitson "Apron" (poem)... 107
• “Grooves in the Record”: An Interview with Crystal Wilkinson
  by Ashley Brewer, Donna Corriher, Jesse Edgerton, Hannah Furgiuele, Coty Hogue, Rebecca Jones,
  Blaze Edward Pappas, Shannon Perry, with Patricia D. Beaver ...108
• Glenis Redmond "Light (For Lucille Clifton)"...125
  
• Willa Cather’s Sapphira And The Slave Girl in Appalachian Context: A Review Essay
  by John C. Inscoe...126
• Southern West Virginia and the Contradiction of Coal: A Review Essay on Rebecca R. Scott’s Removing Mountains by J. Todd Nesbitt...136
• Lynn Doyle "Seasonal Disorders: Deep Gap" (poem) ... 141
• John York "Winter Triptych"  (poem) ...142
• John York "Squirrel Woman" (poem) ...145
  
• “Trying to Put Socks on an Octopus”: Reviewing James Agee by Donald Secreast...146
• Moments of Grace on Fields and Streams in Don Johnson’s Here and Gone by David L. Vanderwerken...150
  
  Book and Film Reviews
• Thomas Dublin on Deep Down: A Story from the Heart of Coal Country, dir. Jen Gilomen and Sally Rubin...158
• Paul Salstrom on Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia by Sara M. Gregg...159
• Roberta M. Campbell on To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America by Robert R. Korstad and James L. Leloudis and Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky by Catherine Fosl and Tracy E. K’Meyer...162
• Glenna H. Graves on Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields by Richard Callahan Jr. ...165
• Carl Lindahl on Tales of Kentucky Ghosts by William Lynwood Montell ... 166
• John Lang on Ancestors and Others: New and Selected Stories by Fred Chappell ... 168
• Sharon Hatfield on Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood by Joyce Dyer ... 171
• Shannon Perry on Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks ...172
• Amy Tipton Cortner on I Wonder As I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles by Ron Pen ...175
• Jim Minick on Waking by Ron Rash ...177
• Diane Simmons on Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories by Meredith Sue Willis ...179
• Christina Bolgiano on The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family by Jim Minick ... 181
• Jeff Mann on The Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South by Brock Thompson ...182
• Theresa L. Burriss on Finding Sara: A Daughter’s Journey by Margaret Edds ... 184
• John Lang on Understanding Charles Wright by Joe Moffett ...186
• Steven E. Nash on A Mountaineer in Motion: The Memoir of Dr. Abraham Jobe, 1817-1906, edited by David C. Hsiung ...188
• Chris Green on AppalJ Edition of The Southern Mountaineer in Fact and Fiction by Cratis D. Williams...189
• Denton Loving "The Lines Beneath" (poem) ...192
• Denton Loving "To Be Chosen, Not" (poem) ... 193
  CHRONICLE  &  APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS