Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene

"Mountains Piled upon Mountains features nearly fifty writers from across Appalachia sharing their place-based fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Moving beyond the tradition of transcendental nature writing, much of the work collected here engages current issues facing the region and the planet (such as hydraulic fracturing, water contamination, mountaintop removal, and deforestation), and provides readers with insights on the human-nature relationship in an era of rapid environmental change. This book includes a mix of new and recent creative work by established and emerging authors. The contributors write about experiences from northern Georgia to upstate New York, invite parallels between a watershed in West Virginia and one in North Carolina, and often emphasize connections between Appalachia and more distant locations. In the pages of Mountains Piled upon Mountains are celebration, mourning, confusion, loneliness, admiration, and other emotions and experiences rooted in place but transcending Appalachia's boundaries"--

Author: Jessica Cory
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 08/01/2019
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781946684905
ISBN10: 1946684902
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | General
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Nature

About the Author

Jessica Cory teaches in the English department at Western Carolina University. She grew up in southeastern Ohio, and her work has been published in ellipsis..., A Poetry Congeries, and other journals.