The speaker in Irene McKinney's poems is most often alone, sitting at the side of a stream, or standing at her own chosen gravesite in the Appalachian mountains, and the meditations spoken out of this essential solitude are powerfully clear, witty, and wide-ranging in content and tone. The center sequence of poems in the Emily Dickinson persona explore and magnify that great and enigmatic figure. McKinney's poems are firmly grounded in concern for the ways in which the elemental powers are at work in the Earth and in us: on the surface of our lives, and deeper in the underworld of the coal mines. In these poems, the human world is never seen separate from the natural one.,The speaker in Irene McKinney?s poems is most often alone, sitting at the side of a stream, or standing at her own chosen gravesite in the Appalachian mountains, and the meditations spoken out of this essential solitude are powerfully clear, witty, and wide-ranging in content and tone. The center sequence of poems in the Emily Dickinson persona explore and magnify that great and enigmatic figure. McKinney?s poems are firmly grounded in concern for the ways in which the elemental powers are at work in the Earth and in us: on the surface of our lives, and deeper in the underworld of the coal mines. In these poems, the human world is never seen separate from the natural one.
SIX O'CLOCK MINE REPORTTwilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report Potts Farm, Summer 1955 The Ruined House of the Photographer Starlings in the Walls at Night Before Spring A Freshet in Brattleboro Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe Little Boats Deep Mining Sunday Morning, 1950 THE ONLY PORTRAIT OF EMILY DICKINSONThe Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson Her Fascicles She Speaks of Her Sister The Birds Her Name Her Poem She Says Zero She Speaks to the Visitor at the Dickinson Homestead LIMITED ACCESSVisiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia No Elegy Pike County Breakdown A Stream in His Mind To His Wife The Jewelry Box
I am grateful for the poems that burst forth from her West Virginia roots to shape this fine collection.Maxine Kumin,What a rich, evocative world is Irene McKinney's. She writes with a strong soul, a great ear, a commanding vista.David Baker
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