The Girl Singer
eBook - PDF

The Girl Singer

Poems

  1. 76 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Girl Singer

Poems

About this book

Feminism, Appalachian culture, and country music: three threads beautifully woven into one in Marianne Worthington's poetry collection The Girl Singer.

The poet grew up in urban Appalachia, listening to country and folk music and letting it live within her. The speakers in The Girl Singer offer lyrical celebrations of the women who performed that music and recite their stories anew. The girl singer is also the poet—one who traces loss through turning seasons, monitors the patterns of neighborhood wildlife, and creates a sisterhood for singing old songs in new ways.

The Girl Singer is part family history, part music, and part nature walk. Worthington's attentive eye and heart are reflected in the starkly striking and painful images she paints in the poems. Every poem, whether describing a connection with Appalachian wildlife, retelling the lyrics of a classic country tune, reflecting on the speaker's bloodline, or giving voice to famous musical figures of the past, strikes a powerful chord.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Rank Stranger
  8. Part I
  9. Index of Canticles
  10. A. P. Carter v. Sara Carter, 1932
  11. Dead Man’s Tuning
  12. Strings
  13. Knoxville Boy
  14. Recitatives on a Murder (WIlkes County, North Carolina 1866)
  15. The Girl Singer
  16. Barn Dance (Road Show)
  17. Barn Dance (Costume)
  18. Barn Dance (Chorus)
  19. Barn Dance (Cousin Emmy Remembers Her Show Car)
  20. Maybelle Carter on Singing Hillbily Boogie with Sara, ca. 1963
  21. On Seeing a Letter Patsy Cline Wrote to Nudie the Tailor
  22. Rebel Girl (Hazel Dickens)
  23. I saw Bobby Bare kiss Marty Stuart
  24. I Will Always Love You
  25. Love in the Cold War
  26. Untitled
  27. Poem in My Grandmother’s Voice
  28. Pentecost 1965
  29. The only way out
  30. My Grandmother’s Sewing Notions
  31. Once
  32. Vocal School
  33. War Story
  34. Minor Detour through an Old Knoxville Neighborhood
  35. James Brown Performs “Cold Sweat” on American Bandstand ,1968
  36. Slow Dance
  37. Corvus
  38. Thanksgiving Eve
  39. Herons on the Holston
  40. Gallows Humor
  41. Sevens
  42. Paralysis
  43. My Maternal People
  44. Kitchen Waltz
  45. Tree Rings
  46. Part III
  47. Ballad
  48. To Sing and Sing Again
  49. The Chief Things of the Ancient Mountains
  50. The Full Corn Moon
  51. Gravity Sonnet
  52. Roll Call (A Dissimulation of Birds)
  53. Lone Crow Daddy Spends His Afternoon Setting Up a Carnival
  54. Small-Town Gossip
  55. My Grandmother’s Dog Song
  56. Bounty
  57. Barn Swallows
  58. Put Upon by Grief
  59. Gospel Song
  60. Sorrow Lets Loose for a Moment
  61. Offal & Bones
  62. Oh, Groundhog!
  63. Mapmaker
  64. Notes and Acknowledgments
  65. About the Author