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Abiding Appalachia
Where Mountain and Atom Meet
by
Marilou Awiakta |
- A pioneering classic in the fusion of Native American,
Appalachian, and
scientific thought, poet Awiakta fuses her Cherokee-Appalachian
heritage with the experience of growing up on the atomic
frontier in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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- "An elegant book...in which childhood, the family, and
the mountains share equal place with the anguish of the
human spirit confronted with potential destruction by
technology." --Michael Fabre, Afro-American Newsletter,
Sorbonne, Paris
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- Awiakta explores humanity's dilemma -- and hope --
through the legendary Awi Usdi, Little Deer, a
Cherokee spirit-teacher of reverence.
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- Excerpt Page 48:
"The atom was poetry in my childhood -- images, rhythms -- a
presence beautiful, mysterious, dangerous... like the
mountain. And I loved them both. Then the atom went
awry...was alien. Without knowing why I turned away. Now I
know it was the way they spoke of it. They'd split the
nucleus in those days -- neat, precise, controlled . . .
"Four quarks are known so far -- 'Up, Down, Charmed, and
Strange.' And if there're others they may be named 'Beauty' and 'Truth.'
The language of science is coming round. The atom has found
its poetry again . . ."
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- ISBN 978-0-936015-99-6
- xiv + 66 pages, 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches, paperbound
- 11 photographs
- $14.95
plus shipping, per copy
- US shipping and handling -
$5.00, add
$.50 for
each additional book
- International shipping and handling -
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for Priority Mail International
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