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Author Miller, Jim Wayne, author.

Title The mountains have come closer / Jim Wayne Miller
Published Boone, N.C. : Appalachian Consortium Press, 1980

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Contents Part one. In the American funhouse -- Saturday morning -- Getting together -- If your birthday is today -- A plague of telephones -- Certain dreams -- Living with children -- I share -- Fish story -- A house of readers -- Skydivers -- Going south -- Part two. You must be born again -- Brier riddle -- No name -- Turn your radio on -- Chopping wood -- His hands -- Winter days -- Brier visions -- Going to sleep by a troutstream -- Down home -- Restoring an old farmhouse -- Light leaving -- He remembers his mother -- Bird in the house -- His three-legged dream -- Set apart -- On the wings of a dove -- Every leaf a mirror -- Born again -- The brier breathing -- Long view -- Part three. Brier sermon -- Harvest -- The brier losing touch with his traditions -- Shapes -- Abandoned -- How America came to the mountains -- He watches a televised senate hearing -- He sings ballads -- The brier reviewing novels -- Brier sermon : "You must be born again."
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Subject Mountain people -- Poetry
Mountain people.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469636610
1469636611