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Free union

John Casteen

200968 pagesabout 1–2 hours
2009
first published
  • 2009University of Georgia Press · 68 pages · ENGISBN 9780820333281

The poems in this debut collection revolve around physical work, the Appalachian landscape, and family relationships. Casteen, for ten years a designer and builder of custom furniture, ranges from the farm to the shop floor, from the rivers of the Piedmont to the wooded shoulders of the Blue Ridge, and from the hyperattentiveness of childhood through the anxieties and joys of fatherhood.

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