Tales from the Limestone

<p>In your hands you hold my heart my soul spilled onto pages with memories of loss of pain of healing from the mountainside of West Virginia.</p><p><br></p><p>Steeped in music color and images of the natural world Oster's poetry provides windows into moments -- glimpses of emotions of life and love of fear and grief of heartbreak and triumph. A stunning debut in these poems you can hear a musician's voice singing a song that will resonate in some way with every reader. -- Jessica Salfia author of <em>55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Josh Oster's poetry captures the intangible experience of being Appalachian. His work is hopeful but colored by grief and despair. Those conflicting emotions are part of the Appalachian experience; Josh captures those feelings in this collection. -- Robert Dugan author of <em>A Stranger Among Us: A Novel of the West Virginia Opioid Crisis.</em></p>