Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, 1950-1999

Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, 1950-1999 by Smith, Barbara. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780967605128.

Subtitled "Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry 1950-1999", Wild Sweet Notes represents the work of more than 110 living and 20 deceased West Virginia poets. With insights into Japanese flower gardening and hog butchering, into mother-daughter relations and horse trading, in verse that is wistful or bright or drenched in rural beauty, this anthology surprises and delights. This varied collection of remarkably high poetic quality will enchant readers throughout the English-speaking world.