Uncovering Appalachia’s Hidden Heroines: Pauletta Hansel Reveals Untold Stories in Understory
I will also say that my research interests led me in that direction as well. I never intended the book to be about my family’s history alone, but rather to use us as a lens to write about the history of Appalachia. What I was uncovering was just so interesting to me that I wanted the contextual information to be in the book in a more direct — dare I say prosaic — way. I do write historical and documentary poetry, but it felt like I was trying to do too much for poetry alone to carry the weight of 400 years of history. And thus, the form came into being. I count myself really lucky that my editor at University Press of Kentucky was willing to take a chance on this hybrid form.
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