Merciful Days Poems (Paperback) by JesseGraves 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."
"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 ..."
"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 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 JesseGraves 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 JesseGraves 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."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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."
"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 JesseGraves 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
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"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 ..."
"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" 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, JesseGraves 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, JesseGraves 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."