A Kentucky Literary Award and Appalachian Book of the Year Award Nominee

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   "Anne Shelby is a singer. Her pure, plaintive contralto can make a mountain ballad yearn with 'everything that ever happened, and a heap of things that didn't.'  ...These are poems tht sing, as surely as if there were notes hanging over each word. . . . Come, listen to Anne sing."

-- Dana Wildsmith, author of Our Bodies Remember

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   " Her poems surely make us laugh as she hits the bullseye---again and again---on all things Appalachian. . . . These are poems for country people, feminists, writers, reformers, academics, town people, neighbors and kin. These are poems for all of us. . . . "

-- Kate Black, Appalachian Studies faculty, University of Kentucky  

Appalachian

Studies

poems

by

Anne

Shelby

　. . . Do not be put off by her analytical-sounding title. Indeed, in her poem of the same title she contrasts the gobbledygook of academic and government "studies" of Appalachia with the succinct eloquence of her authentic mountain voice."

 -- Wade Hall, editor, The Kentucky Anthology

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