On Long Mountain: Poems
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ISBN: 0807122521 / Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, February 1998
Black Shawl emanates from Kathryn Stripling Byer's fascination with female ballad singers in souther...
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Black Shawl emanates from Kathryn Stripling Byer's fascination with female ballad singers in southern Appalachia, whose voices haunt the mountains still, and from the image of a black net or shawl being dragged over the ground, plumbing the depths, collecting bits and fragments of a woman's life. The singers and storytellers of this collection are struggling to answer the query of the book's epigraph: "What will you make of this?"
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