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Books by Jesse Graves






Merciful Days
Poems (Paperback)
by Jesse Graves
Paperback, 60 Pages, Published 2020 by Mercer Univ Pr Okt 2020
ISBN-13: 978-0-88146-756-7, ISBN: 0-88146-756-1

"The new work in MERCIFUL DAYS will remind readers why Ron Rash has said, These poems have the music, wisdom, and singular voice of a talent fully realized, and make abundantly clear that Jesse Graves is one of America's finest young poets."






Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine
Poems
by Jesse Graves
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2012 by Texas Review Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-71-7, ISBN: 1-933896-71-X

"Jesse Graves was born and raised in Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, where his ancestors settled in the 1780s. His poems and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Southern Quarterly, Connecticut Review, and other journals, anthologies, and collections. He teaches at East Tennessee State University, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Language. "I admire the assurance, the formal authority of Graves' craft ..."






The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. 3
Contemporary Appalachia
by Jesse Graves, William Wright, Paul Ruffin, Texas Review Press
Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 2010 by Texas Review Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-64-9, ISBN: 1-933896-64-7

"Every place has its own poetry.  For some places, the poetry appears in the tones of voice between neighbors in the grocery store, or in the spirit people share when a high school football team brings them out of their houses on Friday evenings, or even through the sounds engines make as they idle in traffic on the road out of the city after a workday.  The poetry of Appalachia sings in all those familiar ways, but also in the music of ..."






Specter Mountain
Poems
by Jesse Graves, William Wright, Robert Morgan
Paperback, 67 Pages, Published 2018 by Mercer Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-88146-653-9, ISBN: 0-88146-653-0

"SPECTER MOUNTAIN is a book-length poetry collaboration between Jesse Graves and William Wright that imagines the spiritual and ecological life of an embattled landscape. The collection fuses two striking poetic visions into a cohesive and innovative new perspective on nature and the inevitable imprint of human interaction with wilderness. Readers will gain a sense of the permanent beauty of rivers and mountains, timeless images of the s ..."






Basin Ghosts
by Jesse Graves
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2014 by Texas Review Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-53-4, ISBN: 1-937875-53-9

"Basin Ghosts is a collection of original poems by Jesse Graves, author of Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine. Many poems in Basin Ghosts address places and themes that resonated in Graves's first collection, which won the Weatherford Award, the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award, and the Appalachian Writers' Association Book of the Year Award in Poetry. The poems in Basin Ghosts examine life in the rural South, changes that have occ ..."






Said-Songs
Essays on Poetry and Place (Paperback)
by Jesse Graves
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2021 by Mercer University Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-88146-798-7, ISBN: 0-88146-798-7

"The essays collected in Said-Songs range from the personal to the scholarly and explore the hybrid territory in between, where a creative writer considers literary craft and how it influences the generative imagination."






Conversations with Robert Morgan
(Literary Conversations Series)
by Randall Wilhelm, Jesse Graves
Hardcover, 244 Pages, Published 2019 by University Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-2571-1, ISBN: 1-4968-2571-3

"Robert Morgan (b. 1944) is one of the most distinguished writers in southern and Appalachian literature, celebrated for his novels, poetry, short fiction, and historical and biographical writing, totaling more than thirty volumes. Morgan’s work gives voice to the traditionally underrepresented people of southern Appalachia, and his appearances in such popular venues as The Oprah Winfrey Show, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and ..."






Jeff Daniel Marion(2nd Edition)
Poet on the Holston
by Ernest Lee, Jesse Graves, Thomas Alan Holmes, Univ Tennessee Press
Paperback, 255 Pages, Published 2016 by Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-199-0, ISBN: 1-62190-199-8

"The author of nine volumes of poetry and numerous other writings, the editor of several literary journals, the recipient of copious awards, including the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and a longtime teacher and mentor, East Tennessee native Jeff Daniel Marion has come to be known as one of the most significant and beloved voices in Appalachian literature over the past four decades. The twenty-one pieces in t ..."






Southern Poetry Anthology VI
Tennessee
by Jesse Graves, Paul Ruffin, William Wright, Stephen Gardner
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Texas Review Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-45-9, ISBN: 1-937875-45-8

"The state of Tennessee is widely recognized as a home of great music, and its geographic regions are as distinct as Memphis blues, Nashville country, and Bristol old-time sounds. Tennessee's literary heritage offers equal variety and quality, as home to the Fugitive Agrarian Poets, as well as a signature voice from the Black Arts Movement. Few states present such a multicultural panorama as does the Volunteer State. The poems in "The S ..."






The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VII
North Carolina
by William Wright, Paul Ruffin, Jesse Graves, Texas Review Press, Stephen Gardner
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2015 by Texas Review Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-87-9, ISBN: 1-937875-87-3

"Robert Morgan and Kathryn Stripling Byer, Al Maginnes and Cathy Smith Bowers, Thomas Rain Crowe and Michael McFee, as well as many new voices. . . Indeed, the variegation of the Tar Heel State's landscapes, as well as its rich history, is reflected through the myriad voices of its contemporary verse. As with other volumes of The Southern Poetry Anthology, this book--full of a wide gamut of poetic styles and approaches--will appeal to ma ..."






Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine
Poems
by Jesse Graves
100 Pages, Published 2022 by Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-268-0, ISBN: 1-68003-268-2

"In the new expanded edition of Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, poet Jesse Graves carries the land and people of his early life into the light, offering an unforgettable accounting of rural working-class life without a hint of ..."






A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
(Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Ser.)
by Rose Mclarney, Laura-Gray Street, Debra Allbery, Mildred Barya, Wendell Berry, Adrian Blevins, Lee Ann Brown, Molly Mccully Brown, Nickole Brown, Kathryn Byer, Catherine Carter, Allison Hedge Coke, Allyson Comstock, Daniel Corrie, Justin Gardiner, Landon Godfrey, Jesse Graves, Douglas Van Gundy, Cathryn Hankla, Gary Hawkins, Holly Haworth, Sean Hill, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Lisa Kwong, John Lane, Lisa Lewis, Laura Long, Maurice Manning, Jim May, Professor Davis Mccombs, Michael Mcfee, Kevin Mcilvoy, Irene Mckinney, Lucien Meadows, Sandra Meek, Deborah Miranda, Thorpe Moeckel, Rajiv Mohabir, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Robert Morgan, Shauna Morgan, Mary Oliver, Jim Peterson, Dan Powell, Melissa Range, Ron Rash, Chelsea Rathburn, Janisse Ray, Glenis Redmond, Rita Mae Reese, Billy Renkl, Henry Shearon, Rt Smith, Bianca Spriggs, Heidi Lynn Staples, Dan Stryk, Suzanne Stryk, Susan O'dell Underwood, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Gyorgyi Voros, Lesley Wheeler, L. Lamar Wilson, William Wright, L. L. Gaddy
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5624-2, ISBN: 0-8203-5624-7

"Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth. A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia―a hybrid literary and natural history anthology―showcases sixty of the many species indigenous to the region.Ecologically, cultura ..."






Conversations with Robert Morgan
by Randall Wilhelm, Jesse Graves
244 Pages, Published 2019 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-2575-9, ISBN: 1-4968-2575-6

"Robert Morgan has taught writing at Cornell University in New York for more than thirty-five years. But his ... Recently I spoke to him about his latest book, which is about the life of the legendary Daniel Boone, and is Morgan's first biography."






Goliad Review 1.2
by John Molina, Gonzalo Baeza, Rusty Barnes, Beate Baum, Cynthia Cruz, Patrick Michael Finn, Jesse Graves, Miriam Kotzin, William Logan, Josh Polinard
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2018 by Goliad Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-948428-05-7, ISBN: 1-948428-05-9

"This second issue of Goliad Review contains work by award winning authors, critics, and poets. It features new poetry from American poet Cynthia Cruz; an essay on the state of literary criticism by William Logan; an excerpt from working-class fiction author Patrick Michael Finn's new novel. Plus, new work from Jesse Graves, George Singleton, and much more."






Basin Ghosts
Poems
by Jesse Graves
80 Pages, Published 2014 by Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-54-1, ISBN: 1-937875-54-7

"Manyofthepoems originate in family stories,and I oweaspecial debt tothose whofirsttold them. Cover Design:Chad M. Pelton Author Photo:LisaGraves Library ofCongress CataloginginPublication Data Graves, Jesse, 1973author. [Poems."






The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX
Virginia
by William Wright, J. Bruce Fuller, Amy Wright, Jesse Graves
482 Pages, Published 2023 by Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-204-8, ISBN: 1-68003-204-6

"This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focus on newer ..."






Conversations with Robert Morgan
by Randall Wilhelm, Jesse Graves
244 Pages, Published 2019 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-2573-5, ISBN: 1-4968-2573-X

"RM: I grew up with the legend of my uncle Robert Levi, my mother's younger brother. I was named after him, and many people ... Robert K. Morgan, pilot of the Memphis Belle, who lived in Asheville. I studied histories of the Eighth Air Force and ..."






The Poetics of American Song Lyrics(Updated)
(American Made Music Series)
by Charlotte Pence, Lamar Alexander, Gordon Ball, Adam Bradley, Wyn Cooper, David Daniel, Stephen M. Deusner, Claudia Emerson, Beth Ann Fennelly, Keith Flynn, Jesse Graves, Peter Guralnick, John Paul Hampstead, Brian Howe, Jill Jones, David Kirby, Robert Mcparland, Pat Pattison, Eric Reimer, Jeffrey Roessner, Tony Tost, Ben Yagoda, David Caplan, Kevin Young
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2011 by University Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-156-4, ISBN: 1-61703-156-9

""The Poetics of American Song Lyrics" is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, Peter Guralnick, Adam Bradley, David Kirby, Kevin Young, and many others, locate points of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both ..."






Robert Morgan
Essays on the Life and Work (Paperback)
by Robert M. West, Jesse Graves
Paperback, 243 Pages, Published 2022 by Mcfarland & Co Inc, Jefferson, Nc
ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-4863-0, ISBN: 0-7864-4863-6

"56–77), where I suggest that a literary view from below—which is how I read Morgan's fiction—is only possible once the authority of a learned, class-marked style has been qualified or abandoned. 3. The relationship between oral history ..."






Outscape
Writings on Fences and Frontiers
by Jessie Janeshek, Jesse Graves
Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2008 by Knoxville Writers' Guild
ISBN-13: 978-0-9643178-5-7, ISBN: 0-9643178-5-0

"A diverse collection of writings on the natural (and unnatural) fences and frontiers that mark the landscape of East Tennessee and beyond. The one hundred contributions include fiction, poetry, essays and visual arts."



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