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This Summer At Hindman

This Summer At Hindman Ellesa Clay High Appalachian Heritage, Volume 14, Number 4, Fall 1986, p. 20 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1986.0028 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437474/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:23 GMT from JHU Libraries your novel, River ofEarth, I'd never really seen the place." This is the function of the writer—to help us see, and see into, our place, our experience, our lives in the world. Still's poems, short stories and novels are a distinguished, unified body of work, at once unique and universal, illuminating a particular place, people and way of life by providing a poetic vision of the facts. Still's people, swept along on the "mighty river of earth," constitute a metaphor for the essential human experience. Many things happen in Still's writing—humorous things, and almost unbearably sad things. He has not hesitated to narrate what George Eliot called "the harsh unaccommodating actual." But whether humorous or sad, we experience his characters as living, breathing people. "Your heart begins to beat with theirs. That's what I hope to do, anyway," their creator says. But it is the seeing, and seeing into things, which occurs when we turn from the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

This Summer At Hindman

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Appalachian Review , Volume 14 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Ellesa Clay High Appalachian Heritage, Volume 14, Number 4, Fall 1986, p. 20 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1986.0028 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437474/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:23 GMT from JHU Libraries your novel, River ofEarth, I'd never really seen the place." This is the function of the writer—to help us see, and see into, our place, our experience, our lives in the world. Still's poems, short stories and novels are a distinguished, unified body of work, at once unique and universal, illuminating a particular place, people and way of life by providing a poetic vision of the facts. Still's people, swept along on the "mighty river of earth," constitute a metaphor for the essential human experience. Many things happen in Still's writing—humorous things, and almost unbearably sad things. He has not hesitated to narrate what George Eliot called "the harsh unaccommodating actual." But whether humorous or sad, we experience his characters as living, breathing people. "Your heart begins to beat with theirs. That's what I hope to do, anyway," their creator says. But it is the seeing, and seeing into things, which occurs when we turn from the

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