Appalachian Journal

Volume 52 Number 4 ● SUMMER 2025 

Standing Up in a High Field Last Summer by Abby Minor poetry... 361

SIGNS OF THE TIMES, with illustrations by Annie Greenwood... 362

SCHOLARLY ARTICLE 
Ecofeminism in Mesha Maren’s Sugar Run (2019): Familiar Territory, Intersectional Pathways, and Fresh Trails by Deedee Abbott... 368

Blue Ridge Mountains by Aruna Gurumurthy poetry... 384

Helene Suite: Poems 
Lay Me Down by Jerry Buchanan poetry... 385
Lost in Spruce Pine by Jerry Buchanan poetry... 386
Helene's Wrath by Jerry Buchanan poetry... 388
Show, not Tell by Paul Karnowski poetry... 389
Unmoored by William Swarts poetry... 390
Two poems: Hurricane Helene Romps in the Woods Around our House by Gene Hyde poetry... 392
Storm in Four Movements by Tom Hansell poetry... 393

SCHOLARLY ARTICLE 
“The forests are great and old” : Deep Ecology, Deep Time, and Northern Appalachian Environmental History in Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural Hours by Michael S. Martin... 397

Darling Run Notebook (2) by G. C. Waldrep poetry... 420     

Indian Pipes, Pacolet Watershed by G. C. Waldrep poetry... 421     

The Fern Cliff (IX) (Error of Closure) by G. C. Waldrep poetry... 423     

CREATIVE NONFICTION 
Far From Home by Jean K. Dowdy...424
I Need to Ask You by Susan J. Mitchell...428   

INTERVIEW 
“Folklore and Region in Actual Play Podcasting: An Interview with Clint and Griffin McElroy," interviewed by Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth...430

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Macbeth's Many Mountains by Valerie Nieman...444

REVIEWS

Gabriel A. Rieger on Upon the Corner of the Moon by Valerie Nieman...453
Nancy Lawson Remler on Where Dark Things Grow by Andrew K. Clark...454
Kristofer Collins on Once These Hills by Chris McGinley...456
Meredith McCarroll on Thickets Swamped in Fence-Coated Briars by Evan Gray...458
Jim Minick on Load in Nine Times by Frank X Walker...459
Andrew Denson on Oconaluftee: The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley by Elizabeth Giddens...463
Thomas Rain Crowe on The American Queen by Vanessa Miller...464
Jacinda Townsend on Good Women by Halle Hill...466
Mesha Maren on Little Ones by Grey Wolfe LaJoie...468
Tucker Seifert on Stories I Lived to Tell: An Appalachian Memoir by Gary Carden...469
John Turner on I Could Name God in Twelve Ways by Karen Salyer McElmurray...471
Josh Howard on I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay by Matthew Ferrence...472

CHRONICLE ... 475

APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS...478

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS...479

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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