Dirt Songs

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In her third full-length collection </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dirt Songs </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kari Gunter-Seymour's poems are full-throated raw deceptively simple and rippling with candor providing readers an insider's lens into the larger questions surrounding the many aspects of Appalachian culture including identity the impact of poverty</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>generational afflictions and the brunt of mainstream America's skewed regard for the region. Readers will discover a musicality of language a stoic sense of honor a richly detailed tapestry of experiences and an inspiring display of humility and courage. Throughout the book there is an overarching determination to endure to be the last truth teller left standing arm raised in solidarity with the land and its people. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dirt Songs </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>does what journalists and mainstream media have failed to do: provide a uniquely intimate look at landscape and family generated from within Appalachia recognizing that one story cannot accurately represent a region or its people.</span></p>