A Walk to the Spring House - Softcover

Dunlap, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604542586 ISBN 13: 9781604542585

Publisher: Iris Publishing Group, Inc., 2021

Synopsis

The poems by Sue Weaver Dunlap in A Walk to the Spring House capture memories and relics of the poet's repository of experiences in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. These old mountains and her landscape shape the sections of the book, mountains that ultimately "brace" and "root" the poet who celebrates that she "come[s]" from old. Not only does the poet "pause to praise / the storytellers" and lay claim to her "rooted inheritance," she also pays homage to her own "call to love." The poet's landscape dwells deep in the water, the mines, the mountain farm, the family, the mill town, the hollers, the ancestors-Appalachian humankind and geography-its unique voice and place. These poems stitch together love, hurt, history, beliefs, and landscape, an amazing quilt where "[she] whisper[s] the old sweet of piney roses by the door."

About this title

About the Author

Sue Weaver Dunlap lives deep in the Southern Appalachian Mountains near Walland, Tennessee, where she and her husband Raymond live and work a mountain farm. Here, among the bear, turkeys, deer, and pets, she writes poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her poems have appeared in Appalachian Journal, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Appalachian Heritage, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, and Southern Poetry Anthology, among other anthologies and journals. Her poetry has won several awards. Dunlap retired from teaching in 2012 and has since taught poetry classes, done free-lance editing, and volunteered with Tennessee Mountain Writers and Mountain Heritage Literary Festival. Her chapbook entitled The Story Tender was released by Finishing Line Press in 2014 and her full collection entitled Knead in 2016 by Main Street Rag.

Edition details

• Publisher: Iris Publishing Group, Inc.
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604542586
• ISBN 13: 9781604542585
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112