What Comes Down to Us

Download or read book What Comes Down to Us written by Jeff Worley and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky’s most accomplished contemporary poets. Together they serve to illustrate the diversity and richness of poetry being written today in the Commonwealth. The poems were collected by Jeff Worley, a poet who has lived in Kentucky for more than two decades. Although the subject matter of the poems transcends the state’s borders, the collection communicates a strong sense of Kentucky as a place. Worley’s introduction places contemporary Kentucky poetry in the context of the state’s rich literary tradition, and the poet biographies include their reflections and, often, their poetic approach and technique.