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• W611321684 abstract "NEW APPALACHIAN BOOKS OPINIONS AND REVIEWS Ron Rash. Among the Believers. Oak Ridge, TN: Iris Press, 2000. 71 pages, $12.00, paper. Appalachian poet and scholar Rita Sims Quillen published her seminal study of four Appalachian poets in 1989. Looking for Native Ground: Contemporary Appalachian Poetry (The Appalachian Consortium Press) analyzed the poetic folk artistry of Jim Wayne Miller, Fred Chappell, Jeff Daniel Marion, and Robert Morgan and focused on each poet's awareness of memory's place in the creative imagination, as he acknowledges his debt to his mountain past as a wellspring of inspiration (6). If Quillen were writing this book today, she would have to add a fifth poet to her study. Ron Rash, a native western North Carolinian, is also looking for native ground in this second collection of his poetry, appropriately titled Among the Believers. As Appalachian poet, Ron Rash shares Jim Wayne Miller's commitment to regional awareness, Fred Chappell's ties to family, even those black-sheep shadow-cousins, Jeff Daniel Marion's mystic quest in understanding place, and Robert Morgan's storytelling sense in keeping alive an oral tradition. This makes Rash's poetry familiar but certainly not wholly derivative. Rash rightly belongs with this group of distinguished Appalachian poets, though his own poetic voice is striking and his craft is stunning. Among the Believers could be read as a poetry cycle. The poems are divided into five sections but are so closely related that together they form a thematicjourney The poetbegins in the ancient hard country of his Welsh ancestors, moves across the waters to western North Carolina, where violent forces and antithetical images mark the voices, turns inward to specific people, places and things, and ends by driving toward a forgotten family graveyard, still searching for a usable past. During this cycle the reader is carried into a region where the holy sacraments and the celebrations ofbirth and marriage are tempered by horrific death, where heroic tales, hardshell sermons and mythic ghost stories are repeated and used by the inhabitants like tools of survival, and where family history and the hard comfort of a familiar place personalize this pilgrimage for native ground. 61 Perhaps Ron Rash's greatest poetic strength in this collection is the perpetuation of an oral tradition, giving voice to the mountain lore of a people who settled into the hard country and their hard lives and needed the relief of story to uphold them. The majority of the poems in this collection are narrative, and the stories enlighten, instruct, caution and humanize us. Peppered with phrases like we'd always heard, or they will tell you, or some claimed, or some thought, the legends become an integral part of thejourney and attest to Rash's skill as a storyteller. (He is also a prize-winning short story writer.) The Confession is one example that not only illustrates a mythic tale, but Rash's surprising use of violent images. As all good tales do, this one might have served as a warning about what happens to nonbelievers in a fallen world. It is told with such horror and urgency that the speaker doesn't even pause for breath: She hacked the throat of her child with a knife more rust than steel, later told how her arm tired as the windpipe slipped the blade so dug instead for the heart, then noosed a rock to the corpse, threw it into a blue hole, where it stayed until set free by high water to be left shored on a sandbar downstream until the high sheriff brought his suspect, for some believed a sign might make known her guilt in the last gaze but the eyes were shut though the mouth was not, filling the cold mouth a bloom of yellowjackets that flew straight from the lips of her child to hers like a whispered kiss burning until the truth hived in her heart rose to her lips, and though upon the scaffold she spoke an hour what more remembered was the word stung from her tongue on a sandbar, and that one word was murder. 62 As Rash uses mythic tales to acknowledge the violence and tragedy of..." @default.
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