The Milkweed Ladies

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Price
$21.00  $19.53
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publish Date
Pages
136
Dimensions
5.04 X 7.96 X 0.39 inches | 0.37 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780822954064

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About the Author
Louise McNeill (1911-1993) was an accomplished American poet, short story writer, and essayist. She served as poet laureate of West Virginia from 1979 until her death in 1993. In 1988 she was awarded the Appalachian Gold Medallion by the University of Charleston. Her writings and papers are preserved at the West Virginia Region and History Center.
Reviews
Oh what a treasure of weathered beauty and wisdom this book is; what a magical evocation, not only of seventy-five years of deepest living in this our time, but also informed with a poet's memoried sense of nine generations of her people.--Tillie Olsen
Delicate, tensile, bittersweet, Louise McNeill's The Milkweed Ladies is a memoir of importance, full of detail about the soul of a place--our place--and the influence of a now lost world on an accomplished individual life.--Jayne Anne Phillips
In this graceful, poignant memoir, poet McNeill writes of the West Virginia land that has been in her family for nine generations.-- "Publishers Weekly"