Through Glass

Alley, H.

Iris Pr

Columns Left: A Chattanooga Legacy

History

Chambliss, Jac

Americas

Book by Jackson, Carlton, Perkins, Lucille, Dudley, Marilyn

Kentucky Outlaw Man: A Novel Based on the Life of George Al Edwards

Literature & Fiction

Jackson, Carlton

Perkins, Lucille

Dudley, Marilyn

United States

This is Cathy Smith Bowers' second book of poetry, and follows her highly acclaimed and award winning first book, The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas. The organizing element of this new book derives from journeys, both geographical and emotional.

Traveling in Time of Danger

Bowers, Cathy Smith

Poetry

Ron Rash's second book of poetry is based on the historical realities of the mountains of western North Carolina, where Mr. Rash's ancestry goes back for at least five generations. These skillfully crafted and highly compact poems capture the spirit and feeling, the beauty and cruelty, of a place and time which has now largely faded from the American Landscape.

Among the Believers

Rash, Ron

Keith Flynn's third and most ambitious collection of poems, to date, uses spectacular and musical language to address a wide range of crucial social, political and moral issues.

The Lost Sea

Flynn, Keith

Raising the Dead is Ron Rash's third book of poetry. The overall theme is loss, both the social loss from the disappearance of communities due to the external effects of technology, and the personal loss from the death of a family member. The book is divided into five sections with the first and last dealing with the social impacts of the flooding of the Jocassee Valley on the border of North and South Carolina. 
As in his other books, Rash is very precise in his use of language, with the prosody being informed by Welsh forms. Many of the poems use a style of syllabic verse featuring seven- syllable lines with internal echos, but most readers will not notice the craftsmanship of these poems because they flow so naturally. There is great narrative intensity in these poems with short poems of short lines telling detailed and vivid stories.

Raising the Dead

The Man Who Ordered Perch is Joseph Enzweiler's fifth book of poetry.

The Man Who Ordered Perch

Enzweiler, Joseph A.

This poem has a long and complex evolutionary history. It has been developing in fits and starts for about a decade, its author's eye always firmly fixed on a clear well defined vision. He recently remarked, "It began during one of those amazing passionate times in my life when the past and the present collide like great movements of water, merging, sweeping me off.". The poem deals with one of the most persistent and important themes of literature: how memories of particular events and people from the past haunt the present and tend to shape a person's daily realities. 
An earlier version of A Curb in Eden was published by Salmon Publishing, Ltd in Ireland in 1999 (ISBN 1-897648-49-9), but the the current work has been profoundly revised and rewritten and should be considered as a new book that is derivative from a previously existing work. It is intended as a single poem with a continuous emotional thread divided into named sections and readable in a single sitting. The Salmon edition was of entirely different tone from the current poem, being primarily a past tense document. This current, and we hope final, version is primarily in present tense and presented in a much more direct manner. The Salmon version of the poem has 18 sections and consists of 1097 lines. This new Iris version has only 15 sections, some with different names, but is slightly longer at 1125 lines.

Curb in Eden: New Version

The Stone Carver is a collection of 14 short stories from North Carolina writer and poet, Julia Nunnally Duncan. Her first collection of stories, Blue Ridge Shadows was published by Iris Press in 2002. Both collections have received critical acclaim. The stories are set in the Blue Ridge Mountains in north-western North Carolina. Ron Rash writes: "The Stone Carver is a wonderful collection of stories. Duncan has the talent and empathy to make seemingly ordinary people extraordinary as she probes beneath the quiet surfaces of her characters' lives to reveal the profoundest machinations of the human heart."

The Stone Carver: Stories

Duncan, Julia Nunnally

Contemporary

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