Along with her husband, a friend, and four little children, the author travels to the Island of Elba to find beauty and mystery where Napoleon once was king.

A young woman artist leaves her home and husband and goes to New York to follow her dreams. She encounters adventures, romance, and some success with her art. But is it enough to make her happy and will she return to her home in Texas?

These are Poems of Accord and Satisfaction, a legal term meaning settling for what you can get at the end of negotiations. This is what life offers us, after all its wonders and woes, chills and thrills. We celebrate all stages in this little book.

Appalachian Newground is Lee Penningtons twentieth book and the first book he has published after a 23-year hiatus. His books of poetry, essays and short stories have won two nominations for Pulitzer Prizes, earned him the title of Poet Laureate of Kentucky in 1984, and the prices of his former titles have "gone through the roof," as they have been small editions and have never been reprinted.
In this book, as he did in his former publications, Lee Pennington addresses the world of nature and spirit in a unique way, born in him and nurtured by his Eastern Kentucky birthplace among the hills...