| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Contents |
Praise for Every Leaf a Mirror; Title Page; Contents Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; Chronology; Introduction; Part 1: Poetry; Introduction to Part 1; Miracle and Mystery; Slow Darkness; Family -- Love, Marriage, Children; Serious Play; An Anthem for Appalachia; On Writing Poems; Dark to Light; Part 2: Fiction; From Newfound; From His First, Best Country; Cheap; Yucatan; Truth and Fiction; Part 3: Nonfiction; Citizens of Somewhere; Living into the Land; Appalachian Literature; In Quest of the Brier; I Had Come to Tell a Story; Photos; Epilogue; Afterword; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
Jim Wayne Miller (1936--1996) was a prolific writer, a revered teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky University, he helped build programs in the discipline in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, and worked tirelessly to promote regional voices by presenting the work of others as often as he did his own. An innovative poet, essayist, and short story writer, Miller was one of the founding fathers and animating spirits of the Appalachian renaissance. In Every Leaf a Mirror, Morris Allen Grubbs and Mary E |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Short stories
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Poetry
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| Subject |
Southern Appalachian Region
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Mary Ellen, 1935-
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| ISBN |
9780813147260 |
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0813147263 |
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9780813147253 |
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0813147255 |
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