68 Pages
©2013
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Purchase includes: EPUB & MOBI

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ANTHRACITE COUNTRY is a compelling collection of poems on coal mining and the hard coal region of Pennsylvania.

Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. His six novels also include Benjamins Crossing and The Apprentice Lover. His volumes of poetry include The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems. In addition to biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost and William Faulkner, he has written a volume of essays on literature and politics, as well as The Art of Teaching. He edited the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and writes regularly for the Guardian and other publications.