Bücher von Irene Mckinney

This fifth collection of poetry from West Virginia's poet laureate and author of Six O'Clock Mine Report is an extraordinary set of poems which reflects the complexity, the magnanimity, and the resilience of the human spirit. McKinney writes with candour, precision, and compassion; most importantly, though, her poems are accessible to all types of readers.

This is as closely-knit an anthology as you are ever likely to see. It is as though a large, extended family were drawing on the same store of family stories, jokes, symbols, landscapes, animals, trees, language, and vernacular. But it is not merely local references that unites these writers. There is a larger vision that ties these works together.