Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1980. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poems which draw on his life experiences growing up and living in Appalachia. "In his work, he is centrally concerned with the preservation of the Appalachian cultural heritage in the modern world. He invents the figure of the Brier as an Appalachian Everyman, a voice for those voiceless people who are struggling to maintain their connection to a meaningful past." (wikipedia). Recipient of the 1980 Thomas Wolfe Award for this book. Boldly SIGNED on a blank preliminary page and dated Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1982. 64 pp.