Going Across the Water
New and Selected Poems of Harry Humes
$88.17
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
Harry Humes carved out a unique place in American literature by chronicling Appalachian working-class life, natural landscapes, and disappearing rural traditions in Appalachian Pennsylvania with rare lyricism, humility, and precision. He wrote unflinchingly about the austerity and horrors of extraction as well as his deep connection with family and the area mountains and valleys not gutted by the anthracite coal industry.
This volume of Humes’s new and selected poems not only preserve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780804012676 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0804012679 |
| Author: | Harry Humes, Daniel Donaghy, Michael Garrigan, Bruce Weigl |
| Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
| Imprint: | Swallow Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“Here is the breadth of a life attentive to yarrow and cicadas, damselflies and bloodroot. Like the trout he loved, Harry Humes wrote poems of lithe beauty, of moving grace. He mapped his home ground in Appalachia line by line, showing us the hurt of those who mined it but never allowing us to forget how nature might still heal it.” - Todd Davis, author of Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems
About The Author
Harry Humes
Harry Humes (1935–2025) was the author of fourteen collections of poetry and was a longtime professor of English at Kutztown State University.
Daniel Donaghy is a professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Michael Garrigan is a poet who teaches English in the Northeastern School District of Manchester, Pennsylvania.
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