Headwaters
by Sidney Saylor Farr

• Sidney Saylor Farr spent the first 28 years of her life on Stoney Fork in southeastern Kentucky. Since that time she has lived close to the mountains, an environment that provided a rich seed bed for her poetry. After earning her high school diploma through a correspondence school, she entered Berea College as a special student, where, after graduating in 1980, she spent most of the rest of her life working in the Archives and Special Collections department of Hutchins Library. Not only was she the editor of Appalachian Heritage, a southern Appalachian literary quarterly, but she is the author of four other books besides Headwaters.

• Thank God for the mantling snow
  He sends to caress the ravaged hills.
  It covers the smell of the slag heap burning,
  it hides the scars that mar the mountains,
  and makes a shroud for murdered trees.
  I wish the snow would never stop.
  -- from "Appalachia, Where are your Hills?

• ISBN 978-0-936015-58-3
  • vi + 32 pages, 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches, paperbound
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