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Her own family history dances among those of celebrities. The collection is as invested in the poet's own life as it is in Appalachia as a whole. With poems about birds and the moon, the collection also harbors an abundance of natural imagery that highlights the dramatic details of the speaker's daily life, even within the mundane. Skillfully divided into three distinct yet harmonious parts, cantillating local, familial, and personal histories, Girl Singer is a collection of lyrical and descriptive poems that offer unique insight on famous and infamous Appalachian tales from this life and the next.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49741008732433,"sku":"NGR9781950564187","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1950564185.jpg?v=1751125188"},{"product_id":"motif-book-marianne-worthington-9781934894088","title":"Motif","description":"MOTIF: WRITING BY EAR (an anthology of writings about music) is Volume 1 in the MOTIF anthology series from publisher MotesBooks. Future editions will focus on other themes, but each submission in this first collection uses music as a motif, either prominently or in artfully subtle ways. This first MOTIF anthology includes fiction, nonfiction and poetry, as well as some song lyrics by the likes of Patty Griffin and Buddy \u0026amp; Julie Miller. Other contributors include Silas House, Barbara Crooker, Pamela Duncan, George Ella Lyon and Maurice Manning. From reviewer and songwriter Sue Massek: Motif editor Marianne Worthington has woven these stories, songs and poems with music's silken threads, creating a symphony that rocks, sways and syncopates in rhythm to the heartbeats of humankind and follows the melodies and harmonies flowing through our veins. The writers' voices reflect the rich forms and styles of their deliciously diverse home places. From reviewer and music journalist Peter Cooper: Within this beautiful book are thousands of words that offer poetry and laughter, peace and respite, Piano Red and Patty Loveless. There are burgundy shoes here, and feet that tattoo the earth. There is Roy, the wino who worked for Bud Whedbee doing maintenance jobs. There is bourbon and ginger, and melody and harmony in between the lines. All adorn the mystery, with no notion to unravel. 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Readers can begin the journey in the morning with the day shift, travel through the working day with the swing shift, and proceed into the hoot-owl hours with the night shift. As with previous MOTIF anthologies from MotesBooks, the goal is to provide a varied and colorful reading experience on a particular theme. Previous themes in the series have been Music and Chance. In this third volume on the familiar theme of Work, readers will find the dedicated efforts of 130 contributors as challenging and rewarding as a good day's labor. There is a stiff, overly contemplative vein in literature that connects the worlds we find in books to leisure. How many novels give us characters who apparently don't do anything? How many poems seem to emerge from a visit to a first-class resort? Literature of a different vein, however, rewards the reader with a hands-on grasp of the world as it is on the ground-characters do things with their hands, they touch tools and machines, they take the laundry from the line, they weed the garden, they bend their bodies to a task. In short, some literature gives us a world where people actually work. Some work, indeed, is drudgery, but some work leads us unexpectedly to beauty. Some of the work we do is a sign of love. The love that comes from work-from work of all kinds-is the force I find most palpable in this moving and wholly alive anthology. Sometimes that love is stern, sometimes it goes unrecognized, but there it is in the world, like two fingers pinching a clothespin, or a voice singing with the song of a shovel. We need love to wear its work clothes now and then, and I'm glad we have All the Livelong Day to remind us.-Maurice Manning, author of The Common Man, 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist. 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