WOODSMOKE
…
Wayne Caldwell
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Caldwell, Wayne, 1948– author.
Title: Woodsmoke / Wayne Caldwell.
Description: Durham, North Carolina : Blair, [2021]
Identifiers: LCCN 2020030621 (print) | LCCN 2020030622 (ebook) | ISBN 9781949467390 (paperback) | ISBN 9781949467406 (epub)
Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.
Classification: LCC PS3603.A438 W66 2021 (print) | LCC PS3603.A438 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020030621
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020030622
A version of “Woodsmoke” appeared in Appalachian Heritage (Fall, 2011). “Birdbrain” and “May Fourteenth” appeared in Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (West Virginia University Press, 2019).
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