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by: Ron Rash
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780916078508
ISBN: 0916078507
Label: Iris Press
Manufacturer: Iris Press
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2000-04
Publisher: Iris Press
Sales Rank: 731441
Studio: Iris Press
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Book Description:
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.
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Rating:  - Buy this book
If you love poetry and don't have this one, then you're missing the best collection to come out in years. This book should have won the Pulitzer for poetry. Enough said. It's stunning, beautiful, wonderful. And Ron Rash didn't even pay me to say that.
Rating: - Made me a believer
...in Rash's talent, that is. AMONG THE BELIEVERS is a modestly scaled collection of poems that packs a wallop. The power comes from the seeming effortlessness of Rash's rhythms and images in poems set among the "everyday" folk of the Carolina Appalachians who, in their struggles with life, love, redemption, and death, turn out to be something more than ordinary. Here the poet is storyteller, bard, confessor, recorder, and lover of these people. His reverence for them shows in his refusal ever ... Read More
Rating:  - Rash-ional Poet at large
Rash's love of family and simpler times are vividly evident in his writings. His narrative and evocative language mentally sketch the reader into the center of each setting. It is easy to envision the events, thoughts, and feelings that inspired Rash to capture that partiular moment and preserve it in his words. This book is a "must read" for poet lovers and non poet lovers alike.
Rating: - A MAN NOT SO RASH AS HIS NAME
Emotional depth and mastery of form are certainly hallmarks of this latest book of poems by Ron Rash. AMONG THE BELIEVERS is a collection of narrative poetry that has as its heart life in the rural mountain areas of western North Carolina.
Because of the attention given to form and a rhythm that is generated by a deft scattering of alliteration, slant and internal rhyme, ATB is at once a poet's poetry. But the reader who reads for content only will be rewarded as well by the questions ... Read More
Rating: - a collection of beautiful poems
This is a collection of beautiful lyric poems by a poet with a mastery of form and language. I was bowled over by his first collection (Eureka Mill) and while this volume may not be as overpowering as a whole, the individual poems stay with you in the same manner as those of Robert Frost or Gerard Manley Hopkins.
The sensory images are especially beautiful. There are countless lines and phrases that call up not just pictures or sounds or smells, but deep and deeply felt emotions and ... Read More
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