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PublisherOhio University Press
ISBN-100821421689
ISBN-139780821421680
eBay Product ID (ePID)217103672
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Book TitleWalk Till the Dogs Get Mean : Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicAmerican / General
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Collections
AuthorKaren Salyer Mcelmurray
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-026455
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThere's galvanizing power in the pages of Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean . The voices collected here, crying out of an Appalachia too often defined by outsiders, ask us to raise our own voices against those who would speak for us, against|9780821421680|, " Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean offers lively discussion of the role of silence and silencing in Appalachian culture. Blevins and McElmurray have assembled an impressive array of established and new voices. The essays are provocative, electric, occasionally heart-rending, occasionally hilarious, but always thoughtful and essential."--Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire, "The times they are a-changin', even in one of the most traditional of places, Appalachia. Shuck off your biases and read this book--a lot of suffering here but also persistence, triumph, achievement, fulfillment, and joy."--Lo, " Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean offers lively discussion of the role of silence and silencing in Appalachian culture. Blevins and McElmurray have assembled an impressive array of established and new voices. The essays are provocative, electric, occasionally heart-rending, occasionally hilarious, but always thoughtful and essential." --Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire, "The times they are a-changin', even in one of the most traditional of places, Appalachia. Shuck off your biases and read this book--a lot of suffering here but also persistence, triumph, achievement, fulfillment, and joy."--Loyal Jones, author of Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands, "There's galvanizing power in the pages of Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean . The voices collected here, crying out of an Appalachia too often defined by outsiders, ask us to raise our own voices against those who would speak for us, against our whispered inner fears that our stories aren't worth telling. This is a book for our sons and daughters. I know I'll be handing it down to mine."--Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot and Long Man, "The book's diverse reflections... offer a fascinating cross-section of contemporary Appalachian authors' experiences in regard to their unorthodoxy of gender, religion, race, or class in the region."-- Now and Then, "The book's diverse reflections... offer a fascinating cross-section of contemporary Appalachian authors' experiences in regard to their unorthodoxy of gender, religion, race, or class in the region." -- Now and Then, "The essays of Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean create a cumulative effect of startling honesty. Like any worthwhile act of reckoning, this anthology is not particularly concerned with providing answers to the tough personal or cultural dilemmas posed in the essays. Instead it focuses on the writers' willingness to engage permanently open questions. In fact, the sheer variety of style and form collected in this book offers its own powerful testament to the evolving legacy of literary Appalachia."--Chapter16.org/Knoxville Sentinel
Dewey Decimal810.8/0974
SynopsisIn Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today's finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies.In essays that take wide-ranging forms--making this an ideal volume for creative nonfiction classes--contributors write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken. They consider the courage required for the inheritances they carry.Toughness and generosity alike characterize works by Dorothy Allison, bell hooks, Silas House, and others. These writers travel far away from the boundaries of a traditional Appalachia, and then circle back--always--to the mountains that made each of them the distinctive thinking and feeling people they ultimately became. The essays in Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean are an individual and collective act of courage. Contributors: Dorothy Allison, Rob Amberg, Pinckney Benedict, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Sheldon Lee Compton, Michael Croley, Richard Currey, Joyce Dyer, Sarah Einstein, Connie May Fowler, RJ Gibson, Mary Crockett Hill, bell hooks, Silas House, Jason Howard, David Huddle, Tennessee Jones, Lisa Lewis, Jeff Mann, Chris Offutt, Ann Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, Melissa Range, Carter Sickels, Aaron Smith, Jane Springer, Ida Stewart, Jacinda Townsend, Jessie van Eerden, Julia Watts, Charles Dodd White, and Crystal Wilkinson., In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today's finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies.In essays that take wide-ranging forms--making this an ideal volume for creative nonfiction classes--contributors write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken. They consider the courage required for the inheritances they carry.Toughness and generosity alike characterize works by Dorothy Allison, bell hooks, Silas House, and others. These writers travel far away from the boundaries of a traditional Appalachia, and then circle back--always--to the mountains that made each of them the distinctive thinking and feeling people they ultimately became. The essays in Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean are an individual and collective act of courage.Contributors:Dorothy Allison, Rob Amberg, Pinckney Benedict, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Sheldon Lee Compton, Michael Croley, Richard Currey, Joyce Dyer, Sarah Einstein, Connie May Fowler, RJ Gibson, Mary Crockett Hill, bell hooks, Silas House, Jason Howard, David Huddle, Tennessee Jones, Lisa Lewis, Jeff Mann, Chris Offutt, Ann Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, Melissa Range, Carter Sickels, Aaron Smith, Jane Springer, Ida Stewart, Jacinda Townsend, Jessie van Eerden, Julia Watts, Charles Dodd White, and Crystal Wilkinson., In essays that take wide-ranging forms--ideal for creative nonfiction classes--established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia take on the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture. They write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken., In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today's finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies. In essays that take wide-ranging forms--making this an ideal volume for creative nonfiction classes--contributors write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken. They consider the courage required for the inheritances they carry. Toughness and generosity alike characterize works by Dorothy Allison, bell hooks, Silas House, and others. These writers travel far away from the boundaries of a traditional Appalachia, and then circle back--always--to the mountains that made each of them the distinctive thinking and feeling people they ultimately became. The essays in Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean are an individual and collective act of courage. Contributors: Dorothy Allison, Rob Amberg, Pinckney Benedict, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Sheldon Lee Compton, Michael Croley, Richard Currey, Joyce Dyer, Sarah Einstein, Connie May Fowler, RJ Gibson, Mary Crockett Hill, bell hooks, Silas House, Jason Howard, David Huddle, Tennessee Jones, Lisa Lewis, Jeff Mann, Chris Offutt, Ann Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, Melissa Range, Carter Sickels, Aaron Smith, Jane Springer, Ida Stewart, Jacinda Townsend, Jessie van Eerden, Julia Watts, Charles Dodd White, and Crystal Wilkinson., In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today's finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies. In essays that take wide-ranging forms-making this an ideal volume for creative nonfiction classes-contributors write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken. They consider the courage required for the inheritances they carry. Toughness and generosity alike characterize works by Dorothy Allison, bell hooks, Silas House, and others. These writers travel far away from the boundaries of a traditional Appalachia, and then circle back-always-to the mountains that made each of them the distinctive thinking and feeling people they ultimately became. The essays in Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean are an individual and collective act of courage. Contributors: Dorothy Allison, Rob Amberg, Pinckney Benedict, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Sheldon Lee Compton, Michael Croley, Richard Currey, Joyce Dyer, Sarah Einstein, Connie May Fowler, RJ Gibson, Mary Crockett Hill, bell hooks, Silas House, Jason Howard, David Huddle, Tennessee Jones, Lisa Lewis, Jeff Mann, Chris Offutt, Ann Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, Melissa Range, Carter Sickels, Aaron Smith, Jane Springer, Ida Stewart, Jacinda Townsend, Jessie van Eerden, Julia Watts, Charles Dodd White, and Crystal Wilkinson.
LC Classification NumberPS537.W35 2015
