A native of Webster County (1924-2021), her whole life has been in West Virginia with rare forays beyond the state line. She was a farmer and miner’s wife who raised seven children and provided a refuge home for needy family members. She worked all her life, but only started writing poetry in middle age.
Roger Gosden is a British and American scientist whose career began as a research student and fellow in Cambridge, England, supervised by Robert Edwards. After a Population Council fellowship at Duke University, he moved to Edinburgh Medical School in 1976 where he worked for 18 years, subsequently becoming a professor and research director at Leeds and McGill Universities, and the Howard & Georgeanna Jones professor of reproductive medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. In 2004, he moved to Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, joining on the faculty his wife Lucinda Veeck, the embryologist for America’s first IVF baby. They live in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he is a writer, naturalist, and visiting scholar at William & Mary.
A writer or ethnologist might dream of discovering a hidden poet who gives impromptu performances outside a country store or to visitors at her mobile home in a hollow of the West Virginia mountains. Bertie Jane Cutlip (1924 - 2021) composed over 100 poems reflecting on her life in central Appalachia and celebrating the beauty of her home state. Her works express hope and faith amid life's trials, sprinkled with humor. Known only in and around her county, this anthology brings her to wider notice. Sections: HOME; COUNTRY LIFE; FAMILY & FRIENDS; PETS & CRITTERS; SEASONS; MEMORIES; HEART & SOUL
Título : Appalachian Poet: Bertie Jane Cutlip
EAN : 9780997599077
Editorial : Jamestowne Bookworks LLC
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