Appalachian Journal

VOLUME 42, NOS. 1 & 2 (FALL 2014/WINTER 2015) $20.00

SIGNS OF THE TIMES... 6

ARTICLES

• “The Longing for Home,” Appalachian Fiction, and Ron Rash by Emily Satterwhite... 24
• Adaptive Policy and Governance: Natural Resources, Ownership, and Community Development in Appalachia by Zachary D. Swick... 38
• Serving a Severe God: The Subversive Theology of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God by Woods Nash... 64

The Poets... 21

• Still Life With Banjo by William Jolliff... 4
• The Language You Were Born To by William Jolliff... 5
• Dew Rot by Michael McFee... 22
• Scattered by Michael McFee... 23
• Red Tail by Larry C. Simpson... 35
• Uncle Drum by Michael McFee... 36
• Papers Found in a Purse Among Confederate Money by Rachel Morgan... 37
• Old Wives’ Tale by Rachel Morgan... 63
• What Poor People Make and Robinette Funeral Home by Rachel Morgan...139

REVIEW ESSAYS

• Transience and Change in Appalachia: Ron Rash’s Nothing Gold Can Stay by Carmen Rueda... 82
• Quiet Dell: The Place We Long For by Thomas E. Douglass... 90

REVIEWS

• Sandra Barney on Appalachian Health and Well-Being edited by Robert L. Ludke and Phillip J. Obermiller... 96
• Steven E. Nash on Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South by T.R.C. Hutton... 98
• Barry Whittemore on Chattanooga, 1865-1900: A City Set Down in Dixie by Tim Ezzell... 99
• Mary Beth Pennington on The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity by Todd Snyder... 101
• Tom Hansell on Appalachia USA by Builder Levy... 103
• Meredith McCarroll on All-American Redneck by Matthew J. Ferrence... 105
• Grace Toney Edwards on Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology edited by George Brosi and Kate Egerton...107
• Chris Garlock on Anne Braden, Southern Patriot a film by Anne Lewis and Mimi Pickering... 110
• Jordana Ashman Long on Mother of Rain by Karen Spears Zacharias...112
• Travis A. Rountree on Cub by Jeff Mann...114
• Laurel Sanders on Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland by Jeremy B. Jones... 115
• George Eklund on The Sound of One Tree Falling, New and Selected Poems by Llewellyn McKernan...118
• James Hamby on Once I Too Had Wings: The Journals of Emma Bell Miles… edited by Steven Cox...120
• Paul Robertson on The Whiskey Baron by Jon Sealy...124
• Matthew Barrett on Ancient Creek: A Folktale by Gurney Norman...127

Chronicle...130

Appalachia By the Numbers... 140