Product Description: Music as wild as a dance tune on a country fiddle, and as slow and sad as a shape note hymn informs Diane Gilliam Fisher's complex poems. . . . This narrative of three generations of women with roots in the coal camps and prayer meetings of the southern Appalachian mountains is "...read more

Product Description: A collection of poems about women's lives - covering girlhood, mothers and daughters, and how relationships between women are distorted by violence in the home. They tell the stories of four generations of women, beginning in the late-1940s and ending some 50 years later.