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
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Rank Stranger
- Part I
- Index of Canticles
- A. P. Carter v. Sara Carter, 1932
- Dead Manās Tuning
- Strings
- Knoxville Boy
- Recitatives on a Murder (WIlkes County, North Carolina 1866)
- The Girl Singer
- Barn Dance (Road Show)
- Barn Dance (Costume)
- Barn Dance (Chorus)
- Barn Dance (Cousin Emmy Remembers Her Show Car)
- Maybelle Carter on Singing Hillbily Boogie with Sara, ca. 1963
- On Seeing a Letter Patsy Cline Wrote to Nudie the Tailor
- Rebel Girl (Hazel Dickens)
- I saw Bobby Bare kiss Marty Stuart
- I Will Always Love You
- Love in the Cold War
- Untitled
- Poem in My Grandmotherās Voice
- Pentecost 1965
- The only way out
- My Grandmotherās Sewing Notions
- Once
- Vocal School
- War Story
- Minor Detour through an Old Knoxville Neighborhood
- James Brown Performs āCold Sweatā on American Bandstand ,1968
- Slow Dance
- Corvus
- Thanksgiving Eve
- Herons on the Holston
- Gallows Humor
- Sevens
- Paralysis
- My Maternal People
- Kitchen Waltz
- Tree Rings
- Part III
- Ballad
- To Sing and Sing Again
- The Chief Things of the Ancient Mountains
- The Full Corn Moon
- Gravity Sonnet
- Roll Call (A Dissimulation of Birds)
- Lone Crow Daddy Spends His Afternoon Setting Up a Carnival
- Small-Town Gossip
- My Grandmotherās Dog Song
- Bounty
- Barn Swallows
- Put Upon by Grief
- Gospel Song
- Sorrow Lets Loose for a Moment
- Offal & Bones
- Oh, Groundhog!
- Mapmaker
- Notes and Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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