With insights into Japanese flower gardening and hog butchering, into mother-daughter relations and horse trading, in verse that is wistful or bright or drenched in rural beauty, "Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry" surprises and delights. . . . This varied collection of remarkably high poetic quality will enchant readers throughout the English-speaking world. Over 300 poems from more than 110 living poets and approximately 20 deceased poets are featured.
Barbara Smith, co-editor, is a poet, editor, and writer active in many community development projects in Barbour County, West Virginia. She is a retired Dean of Humanities at Alderson-Broaddus College, Philippi, West Virginia.
Kirk Judd, co-editor, is a poet, workshop leader, and co-founder of Allegheny Echoes, a festival of music and the performing arts. He is a Quality Engineer-Advanced with Special Metals Corporation in Huntington, West Virginia.