Description
Steve Scafidi's The Appalachian Sea explores the eponymous place of mountains and story, of rivers and magic, as well as of mortality, where people work and live and die. What began as an homage to the American painter Miles Cleveland Goodwin became a celebration of the spectral qualities of place and home. The artist's gothic imagery of haints and dark orchards haunts the book, wherein the Shenandoah wends, old farmers toil, and ghosts wander a land where change comes on like a flood. There is no escape from this spilling river, the "Appalachian sea," yet for a while we get by and survive. These poems sing of the temporary persistence that makes what surrounds us beloved and strange.
Author: Steve Scafidi
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 07/03/2025
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d
ISBN13: 9780807184714
ISBN10: 0807184713
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places
Author: Steve Scafidi
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 07/03/2025
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d
ISBN13: 9780807184714
ISBN10: 0807184713
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places
About the Author
Steve Scafidi is the author of the poetry collections Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer, For Love of Common Words, The Cabinetmaker's Window, and To the Bramble and the Briar. He works as a cabinetmaker and lives with his family in Summit Point, West Virginia.