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Looking For Native Ground: The Appalachian Poetry of Jim Wayne Miller and Fred Chappell Rita S. Quillen Appalachian Heritage, Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 1983, pp. 42-55 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1983.0031 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438433/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:41 GMT from JHU Libraries Looking For Native Ground The Appalachian Poetry of Jim Wayne Miller and Fred Chappell by Rita S. Quillen PROGRESS, POETRY AND APPLACHIA As middle-class America has poured into the Appalachian region, the native mountain people have found themselves caught in a cultural time warp that may be unparalleled in our history. The rural life, with its particular values, dialect, and institutions, is being replaced by or at least heavily mixed with, a main- stream society. The politicians and businessmen of the area laud this as progress, and, of course, the standard of living and education have improved in the region. But the people of the mountains—old and young, educated and illiterate, farmers and teachers—have mixed feelings about this "progress." In response to this undercurrent of anxiety, the writers, particularly the poets, have sought to describe and explain the evolution that is taking place
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
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