Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC
Will There Also Be Singing? : Poems
Product Code:
9781945049415
ISBN13:
9781945049415
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New
$14.72
Will There Also Be Singing?, Pauletta Hansel's tenth collection, contains poems of witness and protest. Poems include those written in the voices of those living and working in Hansel's native Appalachia, and those exploring this nation's current racial, political and class injustices and divisions. The poet speaks to her own culpability and complicated grief about a land she loves and for whose future she fears. "Will There Also Be Singing? is Hansel's bold reckoning with the causes & consequences of the 2022 flood in eastern Kentucky. This is her home territory. She knows its topography, its people, & its history well. In the closing lines of 'Ariel View of the Catastrophic Flooding' her speakers call us to use our collective voices. Poetry is Hansel's way of doing that work. Don't miss the strength & challenge she offers us." -GEORGE ELLA LYON, Kentucky Poet Laureate 2015-2016 "'Will There Be Singing?' could be subtitled, 'Found Poems, Centos, and Other Songs Woven from the World Around Us.' In this collection, Pauletta Hansel writes a poetry of witness that is a masterclass on how to work with collage. Hansel takes news clippings and historical essays, poems and social media posts, and places them next to each other and layers them on top of each other until a poem emerges."-JEREMY PADEN, author of World As Sacred Burning Heart "I have been working in the coalfields of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky for more than fifty years. I interviewed survivors of the Buffalo Creek Flood in Logan County, West Virginia in 1972. I have worked on Quicksand Creek in Breathitt County, Kentucky, following a flood caused by mountaintop removal mining. I have watched miners testify in trials regarding their black lung disease while needing to use oxygen tanks to simply breathe. I have heard their stories through the words of their wives and children. Hansel has given us the voices of these people unlike any writer of our time. She has given us their grace, dignity, and beauty in their clear and lyrical speech. JACK SPADARO, West Virginia coalfield conservation and mine safety activist
| Author: Pauletta Hansel |
| Publisher: Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC |
| Publication Date: Apr 23, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1945049413 |
| ISBN-13: 9781945049415 |
Will There Also Be Singing? : Poems
$14.72
Will There Also Be Singing?, Pauletta Hansel's tenth collection, contains poems of witness and protest. Poems include those written in the voices of those living and working in Hansel's native Appalachia, and those exploring this nation's current racial, political and class injustices and divisions. The poet speaks to her own culpability and complicated grief about a land she loves and for whose future she fears. "Will There Also Be Singing? is Hansel's bold reckoning with the causes & consequences of the 2022 flood in eastern Kentucky. This is her home territory. She knows its topography, its people, & its history well. In the closing lines of 'Ariel View of the Catastrophic Flooding' her speakers call us to use our collective voices. Poetry is Hansel's way of doing that work. Don't miss the strength & challenge she offers us." -GEORGE ELLA LYON, Kentucky Poet Laureate 2015-2016 "'Will There Be Singing?' could be subtitled, 'Found Poems, Centos, and Other Songs Woven from the World Around Us.' In this collection, Pauletta Hansel writes a poetry of witness that is a masterclass on how to work with collage. Hansel takes news clippings and historical essays, poems and social media posts, and places them next to each other and layers them on top of each other until a poem emerges."-JEREMY PADEN, author of World As Sacred Burning Heart "I have been working in the coalfields of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky for more than fifty years. I interviewed survivors of the Buffalo Creek Flood in Logan County, West Virginia in 1972. I have worked on Quicksand Creek in Breathitt County, Kentucky, following a flood caused by mountaintop removal mining. I have watched miners testify in trials regarding their black lung disease while needing to use oxygen tanks to simply breathe. I have heard their stories through the words of their wives and children. Hansel has given us the voices of these people unlike any writer of our time. She has given us their grace, dignity, and beauty in their clear and lyrical speech. JACK SPADARO, West Virginia coalfield conservation and mine safety activist
| Author: Pauletta Hansel |
| Publisher: Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC |
| Publication Date: Apr 23, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1945049413 |
| ISBN-13: 9781945049415 |
