Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces
A Poetry book. Jo Carson lives and works in East Tennessee, and her work, in this book, has been taking overhard...
“Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unflinching honesty.” – Publishers WeeklyPlaywright and poet Jo Carson has long been mining the rich field of everyday life in her native Appalachia region and East Tennessee. Collecting found stories as part of her ongoing “People Pieces” series, she has created a remarkable distillation of the rhythms and nuances of a specific landscape that proves common to us all. These fifty-four monologues and dialogues are statements of life from the region of the heart.“The pieces all come from people. I never sat my desk and made them up. I heard the heart of each of them somewhere. A grocery store line. A beauty shop. The emergency room. A neighbor across her clothesline to another neighbor. I am an eavesdropper and I practiced being invisible to get them.” – Jo Carson, from the Preface.JO CARSON is an author of poems, plays, short stories and essays who lives and works in Johnson City, Tennessee. She has toured internationally...
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- Pages: 96 pages
- ISBN: 9781559360272 / 1559360275
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Poetry Jo Carson lives and works in East Tennessee, and her work, in this book, has been taking overhard conversations around her, modifying the language into something that approximates folk poetry, and writing it down. Normally, this is a recipe for disaster. However, Carson's ear is finely-tuned enough that what comes out more often than... A favorite...I used it extensively in teaching --for modeling exercises, teaching students to eavesdrop effectively :-) and to look for poem ideas and creative monologues in daily conversations.
