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Title: No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems by Don West, Jeff Biggers, George Brosi ISBN: 0-252-07157-3 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Offers thoughtful, lively, and insightful vignettes
Comment: No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose And Poems collects the work of Appalachian poet and activist Don West (1906-1992) well known as a labor organizer, organic farmer, preacher, cofounder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, found of the Appalachian South Folklife Center in West Virginia, and more. Crossing five decades in West's literary career, No Lonesome Road offers poems from each of West's collections, key prose selections, and a newly recovered chapbook. Co-edited by a long-time personal associate of Don West, No Lonesome Road offers thoughtful, lively, and insightful vignettes of inspiration that call the reader to personal and community action, and is highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Working Class hero
Comment: I was assigned this book for a class and found it a great read. West was sort of the Woody Guthrie poet of his times. Coming from the South, and Appalachia, he was also a rare voice for racial unity and a defender of the working man in the 1930s, a position that cost him a number of jobs and led to attacks by the Klan. Overall, I found his work to be really inspiring, even today.
There is a strange review below that calls West a beat poet. I don't know what that reviewer is referring to. The beats were an entirely different movement, in another time, and another place. The review is quite odd, actually, and out of place and disses a man who gave his life to the cause of social justice.
Rating: 1
Summary: Waste of trees, time, toil.
Comment: Beat poetry was the low point of American literature. Don West failed at even being a mediocre beat poet, his work survives only to feed the egos of his heirs. Better work is produced every day with the Magnetic Poetry tiles at your local Starbucks.
One star is two too many, but that's as low as Amazon allows.
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Title: The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm by Tim Barnwell, George Tice, Sam Gray ISBN: 0393057879 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Screaming With the Cannibals by Lee Maynard ISBN: 0937058815 Publisher: Vandalia Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia by Anthony Cavender ISBN: 080785493X Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Midwife's Tale by Gretchen Moran Laskas ISBN: 0385335512 Publisher: Dial Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips ISBN: 0670032646 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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