From the Mountain, from the Valley (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Still
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Farms, farmers, or farming, Mines, miners, or mining, Edible plants, Environment or environmental health, Corn, Wilderness, Coal or coal mining
James Still was ninety-four when he died in April, 2001, in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. He had lived, mostly alone, for over sixty years in a small log cabin on a branch of Little Carr Creek in Knott County. A writer’s writer, never widely read, he was nonetheless respected and praised by such peers as Katherine Ann Porter, James Dickey, Cleanth Brooks, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and many others. Gurney Norman, Kentucky writer and director of the University of Kentucky creative writing program, called Still the “most influential Kentucky writer of the last fifty years,” the...
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