Appalachian Journal

Volume 50 Numbers 1-2 ● 2023

SIGNS OF THE TIMES  ... 6   
    with illustrations by Annie Greenwood                                                                          

THE POETS ... 24

POEMS

• Clearcut by Gil Allen ... 5
• Burning Burning Bush by Gil Allen ... 157
• privacy, please by Kelsey Day ... 25
• Field Notes from the Anthropocene by Kelsey Day ... 34
• it's easy to live in the apocalypse by Kelsey Day ... 166
• After Breakfast, Knott County, 2007 by Ian Hall ... 64 
• Pilgrim by Ian Hall ... 122
• Christmas Eve 2021, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida by Melissa Helton ... 35

ARTICLES

   IN MEMORIAM

• Travels with Helen--Helen Matthews Lewis (1924-2022) by Patricia D. Beaver ... 26

   ART & HISTORY 

• Most Paintable Mountains: Rudolph F. Ingerle and the Call of the Smokies by Candice Roland Candeto and Matthew Joseph Gailani  ... 38 

   HISTORY | HERSTORY

• Searching for Rebecca Boone by Patricia L. Hudson ... 66

  FIRST PERSON - NONFICTION

• Biography of a Body, Parts III & IV: Unpublished Manuscript by Harriette Simpson Arnow ... 88
  with an Introduction by Sandra L. Ballard

   REVIEW ESSAYS

• Examining the Breadth of Horace Kephart’s Work [On Horace Kephart: Writings, edited by George Frizzell and Mae Miller Claxton], by Erin M. Presley  ... 124
• Coming of Age in the Opioid Era:  Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead  by Lana Whited ... 128

   BOOK REVIEWS

• John M. Glen on So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969-1979 by Shaun Slifer  ... 134
• Robyn Seamon on Ailing in Place: Environmental Inequities and Health Disparities in Appalachia by Michele Morrone ... 136
• Sarah Beth Hopton on Enchanted Ground: The Spirit Room of Jonathan Koons by Sharon Hatfield ... 139
• Steve Trinkle on Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia by Kris Mahr ... 142
• Diane Gilliam on The Tillable Land: Poems by Melva Sue Priddy ... 144
• Jonathan Greene on The Collected Breece D’J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters, Introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips ... 145
• Susan O’Dell Underwood on Call it Horses by Jessie van Eerden ... 149
• John Lang on Robert Morgan: Essays on the Life and Work, edited by Robert M. West and Jesse Graves ... 152
• Kevin W. Young on Traces: A Novel by Patricia L. Hudson ... 154

CHRONICLE ... 158

APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS ... 168

AppalJ is dedicated to fostering diversity of opinion; the viewpoints expressed in these pages are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent opinions of the editor, the Board, or Appalachian State University.

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