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Will Work for Words

Will Work for Words Will Work for Words George Ella Lyon us a glimpse of the dedication of his life: In his poem "Report to the Public Service Committee," Jim Wayne gives I got up at six-thirty in Virginia, played poet-in-the-school till three p.m., drove to Tennessee, read poems, stayed up all night, all the next day, too, then drove to Kentucky in coffee-colored darkness. In mountain backyards of five states I argued that literature and history were good things. As poem doctor I hung out a shingle all summer up and down the mountain South first novel writtenfor adults. books--her latest book is entitled With A Hammer for My Heart. This is her George Ella Lyon, Lexington, Kentucky, is a poet and author of children's I sat up nights with ailing poems, felt their fevered foreheads... and wrote prescriptions for their quick recovery. I briefed a scholarly task force... I searched for my car in airport parking lots. Once I heard Jim Wayne say, with a laugh, "Arriving late, leaving early. That's me." Maybe it felt that way, yet I always saw him as arriving early to do the preliminary work. When the rest ofus were climbing crumpled out of our http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Will Work for Words

Lyon, George Ella
Appalachian Review , Volume 25 (4) – Jan 8, 1997
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Will Work for Words George Ella Lyon us a glimpse of the dedication of his life: In his poem "Report to the Public Service Committee," Jim Wayne gives I got up at six-thirty in Virginia, played poet-in-the-school till three p.m., drove to Tennessee, read poems, stayed up all night, all the next day, too, then drove to Kentucky in coffee-colored darkness. In mountain backyards of five states I argued that literature and history were good things. As poem doctor I hung out a shingle all summer up and down the mountain South first novel writtenfor adults. books--her latest book is entitled With A Hammer for My Heart. This is her George Ella Lyon, Lexington, Kentucky, is a poet and author of children's I sat up nights with ailing poems, felt their fevered foreheads... and wrote prescriptions for their quick recovery. I briefed a scholarly task force... I searched for my car in airport parking lots. Once I heard Jim Wayne say, with a laugh, "Arriving late, leaving early. That's me." Maybe it felt that way, yet I always saw him as arriving early to do the preliminary work. When the rest ofus were climbing crumpled out of our

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Published: Jan 8, 1997

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