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Written by Roy Jacobstein
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Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:00 |
A Form of Optimism Author: Roy Jacobstein  Roy Jacobstein's latest book of poetry, A Form of Optimism (University Press of New England, 2006), won the Samuel French Morse Prize, selected by Lucia Perillo.
Poems from this book appeared in TriQuarterly, The Threepenny Review, Poetry Daily, The Gettsysburg Review, and other literary publications. One of the book's poems is included in LITERATURE: Reading Fiction, Poetry & Drama (McGraw-Hill, 2006), another won the American Anthropology Association's humanistic poetry prize, and a set of six poems won the 2006 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. His previous book of poetry, Ripe, an expansion of his 2000 NCWN Harperprints-winning chapbook, Blue Numbers, Red Life, won the 2002 Felix Pollak Prize. A physician and adjunct professor of maternal and child health in UNC's School of Public Health, Roy works in Africa and Asia on women's reproductive health programs and lives with his wife and daughter in Chapel Hill. A Form of Optimism is available at bookstores and on-line http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/1-55553-664-6.html. |
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Written by Joanna Catherine Scott
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Monday, 30 October 2006 19:00 |
The Road from Chapel Hill by Joanna Catherine Scott
Publisher: Penguin/Berkley
Date: October 31, 2006  The Road from Chapel Hilldeals with resistance to the Confederacy in Civil War North Carolina, and was inspired by the true story of a runaway slave from Chapel Hill.
At its heart is the impossible love between a white girl and the slave she owns and liberates, his struggle to seize freedom in his own two hands, and the work of a group of Union loyalists who risk their lives to help dissenters from the Southern cause. |
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Written by Celia H. Miles
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Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:00 |
Sarranda by Celia H. Miles
Publisher: Infinitypublishing.com
ISBN: 0-7414-3518-7
Price: $13.95  In her fifth work of fiction, Celia Miles writes a "prequel" to a chapter in ThymeTable Mill, in which a mid-1800s woman appears in the restoration of her beloved grist mill. With unflinching honesty and a survivor's grace and humor, Sarranda chronicles her life in isolated western North Carolina's Greene Valley before, during, and after the Civil War years. In a time disrupted, a family fragmented in loyalties, and a land almost destroyed, Sarranda reveals the strength, endurance, and spirit of the mountain woman.
"This lovely novel...is rich with insights about living and dying, about a rare and amazing love never forgotten, and about families who struggle and survive against incredible odds. Beautifully written and totally absorbing."
Joan Medlicott, author of the six novels in The Ladies of Covington series, A Covington Christmas, The Three Mrs. Parkers. "...her best to date. It is rare for a woman to write about this time period and Miles owes much to her own voracious reading. There is a whiff of Austen in her title character--a girl we meet as a pudgy five-year old and follow into her middle years....The war looms large...and it is intriguing to watch Sarranda's character being tested and honed through the hardships of mountain life."
Byron Ballard in WNC Woman, October 2006 |
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