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The mountains have come closer /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Jim Wayne (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boone, N.C. : Appalachian Consortium Press, 1980.
Subjects:
Mountain people > Poetry.
Montagnards > Poésie.
Mountain people.
Electronic books.
Poetry.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part one. In the American funhouse
  • Saturday morning
  • Getting together
  • If your birthday is today
  • A plague of telephones
  • Certain dreams
  • Living with children
  • I share
  • Fish story
  • A house of readers
  • Skydivers
  • Going south
  • Part two. You must be born again
  • Brier riddle
  • No name
  • Turn your radio on
  • Chopping wood
  • His hands
  • Winter days
  • Brier visions
  • Going to sleep by a troutstream
  • Down home
  • Restoring an old farmhouse
  • Light leaving
  • He remembers his mother
  • Bird in the house
  • His three-legged dream
  • Set apart
  • On the wings of a dove
  • Every leaf a mirror
  • Born again
  • The brier breathing
  • Long view
  • Part three. Brier sermon
  • Harvest
  • The brier losing touch with his traditions
  • Shapes
  • Abandoned
  • How America came to the mountains
  • He watches a televised senate hearing
  • He sings ballads
  • The brier reviewing novels
  • Brier sermon : "You must be born again."