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Title LGBTQ fiction and poetry from Appalachia / edited by Jeff Mann & Julia Watts
Edition First edition
Published Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Roberts Gas & Dairy; Careful; Butter; Domestic Life / Dorothy Allison -- Swan Song / Lisa Alther -- Anything You Want, You Got It; Biography; Cleaning the Guns; In Real Life; My Father and Ezra Pound / Maggie Anderson -- My Book, in Birds; To My Grandmother's Ghost, Flying with Me on a Plane; An Invitation for My Grandmother; Ten Questions You're Afraid to Ask, Answered / Nickole Brown -- The Rope Swing / Jonathan Corcoran -- verb my noun: a poem cycle; After the Villagers Go Home: An Allegory; Halloween 2011; Halloween 2017; For Cheryl D my first lover, 41 years later; Three days after the 2017 Solar Eclipse; Sept. 1 Invocation; a conversation with an old friend; Upon realizing; The Black Atlantic / doris diosa davenport -- The Desmodontidae / Victor Depta -- How To Be Beautiful / Silas House -- Bad Habits / Fenton Johnson -- Wonders / Charles Lloyd -- Not for Long; Training the Enemy; Yellow-Eye Beans; The Gay Redneck Devours Draper Mercantile; Three Crosses; Homecoming / Jeff Mann -- Among / Mesha Maren -- Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers; Brave; Vampirella; Monkey Orchid; Alien Boy; Mercy; Ritual / Kelly McQuain -- A Better Life / Rahul Mehta -- Ricochet / Ann Pancake -- Saving / Carter Sickels -- WWJD / about love; WWJD / about letting go; Jesus and I Went to the Walmart; Catfisting; Pork Belly; A List of Times I Thought I Was Gay; Jesus Signs Me Up for a Dating App / Savannah Sipple -- Double Valentine; How Bodies Fit; Need; Something You Should Know; The Clover Tree; The Quilt: 25 April 1993; While You Sleep / Anita Skeen -- Blanket; There's still one story; Twice / Aaron Smith -- Handling Dynamite / Julia Watts
Summary "This collection, the first of its kind, gathers fiction and poetry from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors from Appalachia. Like much Appalachian literature, these works are pervaded with an attachment to family and the mountain landscape, yet balancing queer and Appalachian identities is an undertaking fraught with conflict. This collection confronts the problematic and complex intersections of place, family, sexuality, gender, and religion with which LGBTQ Appalachians often grapple. With works by established writers such as Dorothy Allison, Silas House, Ann Pancake, Fenton Johnson, and Nickole Brown and emerging writers such as Savannah Sipple, Rahul Mehta, Mesha Maren, and Jonathan Corcoran, this collection celebrates a literary canon comprising writers who give voice to what it means to be Appalachian and LGBTQ"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 26, 2019)
Subject Gay people's writings, American -- Appalachian Region
Bisexual people's writings, American -- Appalachian Region
Transgender people's writings, American -- Appalachian Region
Gay people's writings, American -- Appalachian Region -- Literary collections
Bisexual people's writings, American -- Appalachian Region -- Literary collections
Transgender people's writings, American -- Appalachian Region -- Literary collections
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Bisexuals' writings, American
Gays' writings, American
Transgender people's writings, American
SUBJECT Appalachian Region -- Literary collections
Subject Appalachian Region
Genre/Form Literary collections
Form Electronic book
Author Watts, Julia, 1969- editor.
Mann, Jeff, editor.
ISBN 9781946684936
1946684937