New Covenant Bound

by Tony Crunk

Overview

The expansive lakes and peaceful nature refuges of western Kentucky are haunted by memories of communities and lives that were sacrificed for the sake of progress. Over a period of thirty years, some twenty-eight thousand people were forcibly removed from their homes to make way for Kentucky Lake in the 1930s, Lake Barkley in the 1950s, and Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in the 1960s. In New Covenant Bound, renowned poet T. Crunk intersperses narrative prose and vivid lyric verse to explore the devastation one family experienced in this overlooked episode in Kentucky history. Bridging generations of pain and loss, voices of the past and present evoke the relentless advance of forces that changed this land and its legacy forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813125992
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	08/27/2010
Series:	Kentucky Voices
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

T. Crunk, winner of the 1994 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and writer-in-residence at the Alabama Writers' Forum "Writing our Stories" project, is the author of Living in the Resurrection and Parables and Revelations. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Table of Contents

Map: Between the Rivers, 1907 viii

Memoriam ix

I Summons 1

II Bethel Grove 19

III The Crossing 43

IV Nightfishers 57

V New Covenant Bound 65

Credits 89

Index of Titles and First Lines 91

About the Author 95

What People are Saying About This

Gregory S. Orr

In New Covenant Bound, Tony Crunk blends lyric and lucid prose to take us on a journey through time and into the heart of historical sorrow. It's a haunting, haunted story that finds here its eloquent celebrant and elegist. (Gregory S. Orr, author of How Beautiful the Beloved)

Editorial Reviews

Crunk's New Covenant Bound is a book which provides a necessary education for anyone interested in the fate of exiles in general. From the painful story of grandmother and grandson we learn what it means to eat the bitter bread of displacement and to end up feeling like a permanent wanderer with no real home for the heart or soul. — Martinsburg Journal

Martinsburg Journal - Sonja James

"The book is sad and beautiful in its effects; its artistry is complex and sophisticated, the work of a consummate craftsman making use of original stanza patterns and intricate lineation. The quality of Crunk's lyricism is rare in contemporary American poetry; passages of New Covenant Bound are among the most moving and visionary work I've seen in a long time." —Maurice Manning, author of The Common Man: Poems

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