To be completely honest, I have always been interested in poetry. I enjoy this style of writing and I find it easy to appreciate the art form. With that being said, I sometimes find it difficult to understand the meaning behind certain poems. Obviously some of the poems in Abiding Appalachia were easier understood than others for me, thus I am biased to the ones that I could follow. I would say of the three genres; fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, my favorite to read is fiction. I am not saying that Butler's Parable Of the Sower is the best fiction book I have took the time to read, but of the pieces we have read this year, it is my favorite. I feel that I at times have a rather animalistic nature, so reading Parable revved me up and grabbed my attention with every chapter. The fact that Lauren's gang had to encounter battles with dogs, people, and sexual tensions, amongst other things truly let my imagination guide me through the book. I would hate to see Parable of the Sower made into a film.
In regard to Abiding Appalachia, I felt that I needed to look up more about the author, Marilou Awiakta, and where she came from. In her poems, she references her indian heritage. Not only is Awiakta an Appalachian Indian, she is a Cherokee Indian as well. She wrote this book of poems after the nuclear incident in Three Mile Island after 1978. Another fact that I found interesting was the Awiakta grew up on the atomic frontier on Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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