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Praise for Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods
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Copyrights
To my Reader
Table of Contents
Introduction
Olives
And Then I Arrive at the Powerful Green Hill
A Blessing
Mercy
Vow of Silence
Stone-Hearted
“What if There Weren’t Any Stars?”
The Rink Girl
The Dream of the Father
Through the Still Hours
The Boys of Bradleytown
August, West Virginia
The Dirt Road
Waking to Spring
Jennie
Thin Places
On Finally Blaming Myself a Little Finally
Almost Heaven, Almost Famous
Kennedy Wins West Virginia!
Shed
With No Questions
Quilting
A Jar of Rain
Phantom Flesh
Family Portrait With Spider Web
Appalachian Ghost
Dark Early
Belle Fleur
A History of Barbed Wire
Chokedamp
From the Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life
Picking Blackberries
I Have Slept in Beds and in Gutters
Helen, Sovereign
Homage to Hazel Dickens
Zach Speaks
Camping as Boys in the Cow Field
Ritual
Quarantine
Robbing Pillars
Dogwood, Cardinal
Boy Killed on the Grafton Road
Apocrypha
Natural Resources
Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley
From Lark and Termite
What’s Left of the Jamie Archer Band
West Virginia, or What Do You Want Me to Say?
Path
Uninsured
The Hillbilly Break-dance and the Talking Crow
The West Virginia Copper-Wing
Crepuscule
West Virginia Spring
Don’t Think Like the Mountains, They’re Nothing Like the Future
Letter to an Unknown, and Probably Deceased, Photographer
In the Chemical Valley
Lessons
Point Blank
Soil
Her
Recovering Blues
Lettuce
Cortège
Solvo
Edna
Country Music
Bear Country Blues
Relapse Means I Forgot to Be Better
The Field
Daddy Longlegs
Grandma
The Roy Critchfield Scandals
Absentee
To Toil Not
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Credits