{"title":"Kari Gunter-Seymour","description":"Kari Gunter-Seymour is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship recipient, former poet laureate of Ohio, and a retired instructor in the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. She is the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series, Women Speak. Her award-winning poetry collections include Dirt Songs, Alone in the House of My Heart, and A Place SoDeep Inside America It Can't Be Seen.","products":[{"product_id":"dirt-songs-paperback","title":"Dirt Songs - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her third full-length collection, Dirt Songs, 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, 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. Dirt Songs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378366316767,"sku":"9781958094358","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/p0DolaKx_09781958094358.webp?v=1789254509"},{"product_id":"all-that-teethes-within-poems-paperback","title":"All That Teethes Within: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll That Teethes Within\u003c\/i\u003e, poet Kari Gunter-Seymour\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003etranslates the poignant complexity of loss into words. This exploration of heartache is layered with the poet's Appalachian identity and overflows with sadness and anger toward the forces that cause societal and environmental damage in the region. The poems mourn a loved one's sudden passing, opportunity missed due to poverty or gender inequality, and the piece of one's identity that vanishes or fades with age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGunter-Seymour's interrogation of grief and destruction quietly weaves in elements of nature--\"Breezes whistle like wisps of memory \/ inside clusters of hemlock\"--to counter profound pain. Small joys found in friendship, the land, grandchildren, and wildlife round out this collection. \u003ci\u003eAll That Teethes Within\u003c\/i\u003e reckons with the incomprehensible reality of a sibling's suicide, serving as a guide for survival and a call to speak the truth of our anguish and our rapture\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51409391124703,"sku":"9781985904866","price":32.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5L6NS0RM6O9781985904866.webp?v=1789617512"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/kari-gunter-seymour.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}