MT. PLEASANT. [Mount Pleasant.]

Howell, Elmo [Elmo H. Howell], 1918-2013.

ISBN 10: 0962202681 / ISBN 13: 9780962202681

Published by Memphis, TN: Elmo Howell [E.H. Howell] - Langford & Associates, 2001., 2001

About this Item

1-48, [12], 49-82 pages. Paperback: H 19.25cm x L 13.25cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed; slight vertical crease to spine. Slight soiling at center fore-edge. A few specks of soiling to rear free endpaper and rear cover's blank recto; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A native of Itawamba, Mississippi, Dr. Elmo H. Howell (1918-2013) earned a bachelors at Ole Miss with masters and Ph.D. degrees earned at the University of Florida and taught English at Memphis State University from 1957 to 1983. {PoetryShelf#2} ISBN 0962202681.

Seller Inventory # PXZP-18004

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MT. PLEASANT. [Mount Pleasant.]
• Publisher: Memphis, TN: Elmo Howell [E.H. Howell] - Langford & Associates, 2001.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962202681
• ISBN 13: 9780962202681
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Another of Elmo Howell's Mississippi books, MT PLEASANT---a collection of poetic sketches with photographs---recalls a community in Itawamba County in the early 1900's. With the Appalachian range reaching out to that corner of the state, an old mountain culture still held the church was the center of life, along with a two-teacher school (which the author attended through the eighth grade) and a store and gristmill at the foot of the hill. The twentieth century was a long ways off.
Mr Howell writes with affection for the life he remembers, exulting in language, eccentricity, superstition, belief---but in full awareness of his community's fate. The frontier settlement with a character of its own faced hard going in the years ahead.