Goat-Footed Gods by Kathleen Driskell
Poems that center on the sinister American cryptid, the Goatman of Pope Lick. In her sixth collection>Goat-Footed Gods, award-winning poet, essayist, and teacher Kathleen Driskell seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of the infamous Goatman of Pope Lick, identified by>The Washington Post>as one of the deadliest cryptids in America. The Goatman or Pope Lick Monster, a legendary creature long rumored to roam the woods around Driskell's Kentucky home, is alleged to have caused the deaths of at least five young people at Pope Lick Trestle, a railroad bridge with a ninety-foot drop at its center. The Goatman lyrics are braided with poems about Driskell's child's traumatic injury from a fall. Always at the heart of Driskell's poetry is her insistence that the path to the sacred is found not through the doctrine of ancient gods, but in walking clear-eyed through the dark woods of our historical past and exploring the never-ending wonder of the natural world.
Award-winning poet and teacher Kathleen Driskell serves as the Associate Program Director of Spalding University's brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky, where she is Associate Professor of Creative Writing. She is the author of one previous book of poetry, Laughing Sickness (in its second printing), and the editor of two anthologies of creative writing. Her poems have appeared in many nationally known literary magazines including North American Review, The Southern Review, and The Greensboro Review. Kathleen lives with her husband and two children in an old country church built before the Civil War.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780887487088 |
| ISBN 10 | 0887487084 |
| Title | Goat-Footed Gods |
| Author | Kathleen Driskell |
| Series | Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carnegie-Mellon University Press |
| Year published | 2025-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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