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American painting
Author_Steve Scafidi
Blue Ridge Mountains
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childhood
dreamlike imagery
ekphrastic poetry
elegy
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flooding
landscape
mythic creature
Shenandoah River Valley
southern gothic
strangeness
weird visions
working life
Product details
- ISBN 9780807184714
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Steve Scafidi's The Appalachian Sea explores the eponymous place of mountains and story, of rivers and magic, as well as of mortality, where people work and live and die. What began as an homage to the American painter Miles Cleveland Goodwin became a celebration of the spectral qualities of place and home. The artist's gothic imagery of haints and dark orchards haunts the book, wherein the Shenandoah wends, old farmers toil, and ghosts wander a land where change comes on like a flood. There is no escape from this spilling river, the "Appalachian sea," yet for a while we get by and survive. These poems sing of the temporary persistence that makes what surrounds us beloved and strange.
Steve Scafidi is the author of the poetry collections Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer, For Love of Common Words, The Cabinetmaker's Window, and To the Bramble and the Briar. He works as a cabinetmaker and lives with his family in Summit Point, West Virginia.
