Author : Joseph Bathanti
Release : 2022-03-02
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 326/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Light at the Seam by : Joseph Bathanti
Download or read book Light at the Seam written by Joseph Bathanti. This book was released on 2022-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light at the Seam, a new collection from North Carolina poet Joseph Bathanti, is an exploration of mountaintop removal in southern Appalachian coal country. The volume illuminates and champions often invisible people residing, in a precarious moment in time, on the glorious, yet besieged, Appalachian earth. Their call to defend it, as well as their faith that the land will exact its own reckoning, constitutes a sacred as well as existential quest. Rooted in social and restorative justice, Light at the Seam contemplates the earth as fundamentally sacramental, a crucible of awe and mystery, able to regenerate itself and its people even as it succumbs to them. More than mere cautionary tale, this is a volume of hope and wonder.