Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet

by Marilou Awiakta

Book Overview

Does humanity have enough reverence for life to cope with the atom? Poet Marilou Awiakta poses this question in this book, which was first published in 1978, shortly before the nuclear accident at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916078388
• ISBN13: 9780916078386
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Pocahontas Press
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Distinctive and highly recommended poetry

With the inclusion of occasional black-and-white photographic illustrations and featuring a newly reformatted text, "Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain And Atom Meet" continues to showcase Marilou Awiakta's distinctive and highly recommended poetry which deftly meshes her Cherokee-Appalachian heritage with her experiences growing up in Oak ridge, Tennessee in the newly emerging era of nuclear energy and atomic bombs. `Where Mountain and Atom Meet': Ancient haze lies on the mountain/smoke-blue, strange and still/a presence that eludes the mind and/moves through a deeper kind of knowing./It is nature's breath and more -/an aura from the great I AM/that gathers to its own/spirits that have gone before.//Deep below the valley waters/eerie and hid from view/the atom splits without a sound/its only trace a fine blue glow/rising from the fissioned whole/and at its core/power that commands the will/quiet that strikes the soul./"Be still and know...I AM."