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In this fine Appalachian novel, Larry Smith chronicles four generations of McCalls, their joys and sorrows, their sins and their nobility�.Such regional fiction has always been about people: their connections with one another, their home place, their struggles to survive and to prosper. It�s all here, set, in the grand tradition of Wendell Berry and Conrad Richter, against the Ohio landscape: its hills and its rivers, its frontier beginnings and its later industrial development. We care about the place and its people. Finishing the novel, we understand ourselves and our nation with a deeper knowledge. -Annabel Thomas, author of Stone Man Mountain

"I arrived in San Francisco only a year after Kenneth Patchen's death in 1972, but even then his spirit and legend was a major presence amongst those of us who were" the baby Beats," impressionable, and of the 60' s generation. Kenneth Rexroth was singing his praises. For those of us who have gone their own way, counter-culturally, Kenneth Patchen may be, directly or indirectly, the most important influence on our generations' poetic voice. Along with the likes of Jack Spicer, Bob Kaufman, Jack Hirschman, Philip Lamantia, and the Beats, Patchen sings to us still. Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America is the long-overdue testament and homage to this modem 20th century icon." -- Thomas Rain Crowe

Fiction. "Like the magician in one of his stories, Robert Miltner makes things appear and disappear, amusing and unsettling us at once. These are provocative narratives of working people with all the punch of wit and all the lyricism of poetry... If you're looking for plot twists and engaging ambiguity, here they are. If you're looking for open endings, characters you may live next door to, or may have had a drink with, or an affair with, or may have heard tell of, here they are. If you're looking for poignant and wry situations cast as sudden fictions and prose poems, you'll want to read AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING."--Richard Hague