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Jim Dandy: James Still At Eighty

Jim Dandy: James Still At Eighty Jim Wayne Miller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 14, Number 4, Fall 1986, pp. 8-20 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1986.0017 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437473/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:23 GMT from JHU Libraries Jim Dandy: James Still At Eighty by Jim Wayne Miller 8 When his first published poem appeared in the Virginia Quarterly, James Still sent a copy to the benefactor who had made his graduate education possible by the award of a scholarship. Not at all certain that a boy who wrote poems had benefited from his expenditure, Still's patron, heir to a sash and blind fortune, wrote for advice to Edgar A. Guest, then probably the best-known poet in the country. Edgar A. ("It takes a heap o'livin to make a house a home") Guest's terse reply came promptly: "Leave this young man alone. He may draw up at a place you know nothing of." Still drew up at the Hindman Settlement School in the summer of 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression. For the next three years he worked there for no salary at all, and for another three for an amount which averaged http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Jim Dandy: James Still At Eighty

Miller, Jim Wayne.
Appalachian Review , Volume 14 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Jim Wayne Miller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 14, Number 4, Fall 1986, pp. 8-20 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1986.0017 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437473/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:23 GMT from JHU Libraries Jim Dandy: James Still At Eighty by Jim Wayne Miller 8 When his first published poem appeared in the Virginia Quarterly, James Still sent a copy to the benefactor who had made his graduate education possible by the award of a scholarship. Not at all certain that a boy who wrote poems had benefited from his expenditure, Still's patron, heir to a sash and blind fortune, wrote for advice to Edgar A. Guest, then probably the best-known poet in the country. Edgar A. ("It takes a heap o'livin to make a house a home") Guest's terse reply came promptly: "Leave this young man alone. He may draw up at a place you know nothing of." Still drew up at the Hindman Settlement School in the summer of 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression. For the next three years he worked there for no salary at all, and for another three for an amount which averaged

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Published: Jan 8, 2014

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