Hounds on the Mountain At the intersection of alcoholism

At the intersection of alcoholism and recovery

when his name first appeared in print

No Friends of Coal

of Piano in a Sycamore: Writing Lessons from the Appalachian Writers' Workshop and is author of a poetry chapbook

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Hounds on the Mountain At the intersection of alcoholismFirst published in 1937, Hounds on the Mountain evokes James Still's personal experiences of eastern Kentucky through reflective folk poems describing Appalachian mountain life from birth through death. Written during the Great Depression, the collection emphasizes a collective reliance on the earth and the primacy of nature that Still observed from the seclusion of his thirty acre home in Knott County, Kentucky. Still, who became known as the "Dean