Woodsmoke

Woodsmoke is a poetry collection that renders the experience of living out life in a single, exquisite placein the shadow of the mountain my father said was mother to us allMount Pisgah in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Wayne Caldwell, author of the novel Cataloochee, brings us the waning days of Posey Green, who cuts his own firewood, looks after himself, and tends to the land where his wife Birdie and her people are buried. Poseys colloquial narrative poetry is presented as found verse, conjured from Poseys internal musingsand these poems alternate with those of a new neighbor, a sympathetic female poet who observes Posey and his surroundings and creates a more formal poetic record of his days.