Driving with the Dead: Poems

by Jane Hicks

Appalachia is no stranger to loss. The region suffers regular ecological devastation wrought by strip mining, fracking, and deforestation as well as personal tragedy brought on by enduring poverty and drug addiction. In Driving with the Dead, Appalachian poet, teacher, and artist Jane Hicks weaves an earnest and impassioned elegy for an imperiled yet doggedly optimistic people and place. Exploring the roles that war, environment, culture, and violence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813145554
• ISBN13: 9780813145556
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up