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Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces (review)

Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces (review) pages. $12.95. Carson, Jo. Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces. New York: Orchard Books, 1989. 96 made a concerted effort to de-mythologize the region while at the same time conveying the flavors and nuances of the loosely-termed "Appalachian experience." It is a difficult yet vitally important task, and the results can be both Recent writings about Appalachia have The reasons for such confusion, Carson's subjects assert, stem largely from economic development. "Progress" is destroying the forests, stereotyping mountain people, creating false promised lands called tourist towns, spinning a needlessly growing web of roads-and leading one teenager to de- who's still alive and where they are living. illuminating and pleasurable, as is the case with Jo Carson's latest published collection of poetry. These pieces will be familiar to Carson's followers-about one-third have clare that "I left / that takes your breath hope I die / before the only thing that's Appalachian residents are not entirely innocent, however: a black man notes away / around here / is the smell." that racial attitudes have not advanced previously appeared in various regional journals, and she has used them in performance for several years. Old and new http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces (review)

Glen, John.
Appalachian Review , Volume 17 (4) – Jan 8, 1989
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pages. $12.95. Carson, Jo. Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces. New York: Orchard Books, 1989. 96 made a concerted effort to de-mythologize the region while at the same time conveying the flavors and nuances of the loosely-termed "Appalachian experience." It is a difficult yet vitally important task, and the results can be both Recent writings about Appalachia have The reasons for such confusion, Carson's subjects assert, stem largely from economic development. "Progress" is destroying the forests, stereotyping mountain people, creating false promised lands called tourist towns, spinning a needlessly growing web of roads-and leading one teenager to de- who's still alive and where they are living. illuminating and pleasurable, as is the case with Jo Carson's latest published collection of poetry. These pieces will be familiar to Carson's followers-about one-third have clare that "I left / that takes your breath hope I die / before the only thing that's Appalachian residents are not entirely innocent, however: a black man notes away / around here / is the smell." that racial attitudes have not advanced previously appeared in various regional journals, and she has used them in performance for several years. Old and new

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Published: Jan 8, 1989

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