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"Buy this book, it's a barn burner!"—Dorothy Allison
In an extraordinarily diverse anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic narratives by contemporary Appalachian writers, Red Holler takes us over and beyond the stock imagery of rural mountain communities. We travel into housing projects, forest-stripped ravines, and trailer parks, to explore vibrant hometown and migrant Appalachian cultures. Editors John E. Branscum and Wayne Thomas have assembled a collection spanning ten years and communities in locales ranging from Mississippi to New York, placing fresh new voices alongside widely known and celebrated authors. Drawing on Appalachian literature’s roots in Native American myth, African American urban legend, and European folk culture, and embracing Appalachian urban fiction, the Southern Gothic, gritty no-holds-barred realism, and magical realism, the stories and poems of Red Holler elegantly cohere to perfectly depict what makes Appalachia so fascinating: its irreverent and outlaw challenges to mainstream notions of propriety and convention.
--Publishers Weekly
--Publishers Weekly
Wayne Thomas is the author of plays, fiction, and essays. He teaches creative writing at Tusculum College, a small school located in the northeast Tennessee mountains. He is editor of The Tusculum Review.
Introduction by Pinckney Benedict
Fiction:
Karen McElmurray, "That Night"
Donald Ray Pollock, "Real Life"
Sara Pritchard, "The Very Beautiful Sad Elegy for Bambi's Dead Mother"
Ron Rash, "Back of Beyond"
Alex Taylor, "A Lakeside Penitence"
Jacinda Townsend, "Lackland"
Charles Dodd White, "Controlled Burn"
Crystal Wilkinson, "Fixing Things"
Graphic Narratives:
Pinckney Benedict, "ORGO vs the FLATLANDERS"
Ally Reeves, "Southern Fried Masala"
Nonfiction:
Dennis Covington, "Desire"
Jeff Mann, "715 Willey Street"
Desirae Matherly, "Vagina Dentata"
Jessie van Eerden, "Woman with Spirits"
Poetry:
Nin Andrews, "What the Dead See," "Sundays," "A Brief History of Melvin, My Own Personal Bull"
Makalini Bandele, "Southbound #71"
Brian Barker, "Visions for the Last Night on Earth," "In the City of Fallen Rebels"
Paula Bohince, "Cleaning My Father's House," "Heaven," "The Children"
Maurice Manning, "Culture," "The Geography of Yonder," "Provincial Thought"
Davis McCombs. "Tobacco Culture," "First Hard Freeze," "q & a," "Trash Fish or Nights Back Home"
R. T. Smith, "The Carter Scratch"
Bianca Spriggs, "My Kinda Woman," "Legend of Negro Mountain," "I Would Make a Good Owl"
Jane Springer, "What We Call This Frog Hunting," "Pretty Polly," "Pastoral"
Jake Adam York, "Letter to Be Wrapped Around a Bottle of Whiskey," "Walt Whitman in Alabama," "Knoxville Girl"