One Good Hand by Dana Wildsmith is a book of poetry about living on a small family farm in North Georgia.

One Good Hand: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Wildsmith, Dana

Poetry

Iris Pr

We hear so much talk of building walls along our borders to keep people out, but seldom do we hear the migrants' stories that accompany such dangerous journeys--like the vulnerability of giving up your child to a stranger, the tragedy of dying in the desert, or the constant fear of getting caught. Dana Wildsmith's Jumping captures the experiences of what happens when "illegals" try to cross into the United States, "jumping" the border. Cesar, the main character, is especially powerfully portrayed with his humor, intelligence, and desire to provide a better life for his family. Read this novel for a good story, for a better understanding of our neighbors, and to know what it means to be human.

Jumping

Literary

Ink Brush Press

One Light is a book about a Georgia mother and a daughter who must each take a turn at caregiving. In the first half of the book, the daughter tells of surviving near-fatal burns at age fourteen, and describes with stark straightforwardness the healing process, during which her mother serves as one of her primary caregivers. In Part II, where both voices are alternately and jointly heard, the daughter moves reluctantly into the role of caregiver as her mother travels dementia’s haunting paths. Their shared love of singing and a stubborn tenacity serve as thematic threads.

One Light: Poems

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Texas Review Press

~ The intertwined essays in BACK TO ABNORMAL: SURVIVING WITH AN OLD FARM IN THE NEW SOUTH spin out from author Dana Wildsmith's daily life on an old farm in the foothills of the north Georgia mountains, to the regional world of the ESL classes she teaches, to the national scope of her work as a writer and a teacher of creative writing. They create a web of connections between the actions of the individual and her relation to the wider world. The chapters read like a string of summer front-porch evenings with the author - talking about her past, her work on the farm, the people she lives among, and the eternal puzzle of how to make sure her time on this spot of earth continues whole, healthy and life-sustaining. Environmental writer Jeff Biggers calls BACK TO ABNORMAL "a testimony to what we risk to lose." Philip Lee Williams, a Georgia Author of the Year, says, "The rural world needs all the friends it can get, and it has here found the champion it deserves." Novelist Karen Salyer McElmurray notes: "Wildsmith's stories are sacrament. They are the wildness we need to keep our souls alive." Writer &amp; teacher Darnell Arnoult says BACK TO ABNORMAL is "a sharp and compassionate anthem and prophetic elegy to the pastoral standing ground against the hungry and devouring teeth of suburban sprawl." www.MotesBooks.com ~

Back To Abnormal: Surviving With An Old Farm In The New South

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

MOTES

This new collection by SIBA nominee and GAYA winner Dana Wildsmith brings the reader back once more to Wildsmith’s family farm in Bethlehem, Georgia, a farm introduced through Wildsmith’s earlier poetry collection, One Good Hand, and her environmental memoir, Back to Abnormal. There is a poem for each day of advent in this book, beginning with poems set in the biblical Bethlehem, and then moving in time and place to Wildsmith’s Christmases in Bethlehem, Georgia. The book is appropriately rounded out by the musical score based on one of the poems in the book.

Christmas in Bethlehem

FutureCycle Press

With Access to Tools: Poems

Madville Publishing

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