Volume 45 Numbers 3-4  ● Spring/Summer 2018

SIGNS OF THE TIMES ... 660

THE POETS ... 679

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Melinda B. Wagner ... 680

ARTICLES

• Cultural Considerations of Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Appalachia by Judy Branscom Jenks ... 684
• Appalachia in Science Fiction by Richard Miles Britton ... 702
• Mountaintop Removal Mining Fiction: Energy Humanities and Environmental Injustice by Summer Harrison ... 732

POETRY

• Invitation by Summar West ... 658
• Appalachians by Cortney Cameron ... 659
• Brillances by Shelby Stephenson ... 683
• Where Do Rattlesnakes Live?”  by Charles Swanson ... 699
• There is a Mean Streak Loose in the Land by Helen Matthews Lewis ...  700
• Some Occluded Moon by Allen Tullos ... 731   
• Fullness of Time by Allen Tullos ... 763     
• In Appalachia by Summar West ... 764
• Sycamore Creek by Patsy Kisner ... 775
• One Still Moment by Patsy Kisner ... 775
• Bobcat by Marc Harshman ... 805
• I Am From by Judy Jenks Branscomb ... 812
• Elmer by Marc Harshman ... 813

REVIEWS

• Review Essay: Lee Maynard Retrospective by Donna Meredith ... 766

• Theresa L. Burris on Appalachia Revisited: New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress by William Schumann and Rebecca Adkins Fletcher ... 776    
• Darin J. Waters on Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains by Steven E. Nash ... 779   
• Courtney Balestier on Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes by Ronni Lundy ... 781    
• Jerry W. Williamson on Endless Caverns: An Underground Journey into the Show Caves of Appalachia by Douglas Reichert Powell ... 784    
• John Lang on Coversations with Ron Rash by Mae Miller Claxton and Rain Newcomb ... 785    
• George Brosi on James Still: A Life by Carol Boggess ... 788    
• Paul Salstrom on Hollow and Home: A History of Self and Place by E. Fred Carlisle ... 791    
• John Lang on Small Treasons by Mark Powell ... 793    
• Maggie McKinney on Jumping by Dana Wildsmith ... 796 
• Adrian Blevins on Dear All by Maggie Anderson ... 799    
• William Scott Hanna on Believe What You Can: Poems by Marc Harshman ... 802  

CHRONICLE ... 806    
   
APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS ...814

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