The poems in this collection revolve around physical work, the Appalachian landscape, and family relationships. Casteen, for ten years a designer and builder of custom furniture, ranges from the farm to the shop floor, and from the rivers of the Piedmont to the wooded shoulders of the Blue Ridge.
The poems in this collection revolve around physical work, the Appalachian landscape, and family relationships. Casteen, for ten years a designer and ...
In his second collection, Casteen moves inward from the physical labor and vernacular culture that shaped his first book, "Free Union," yet continues to focus on landscape and human relationships. With poems arranged in the order in which they were completed (which in large part reflects the order in which they were first written), Casteen presents a poetic record of the experiences of solitude, marriage, fatherhood, loss, and recovery. The Carolina chickadee can be heard in this work, but so can Emmylou Harris singing with Gram Parsons; these poems dwell in the music of language, the hard...
In his second collection, Casteen moves inward from the physical labor and vernacular culture that shaped his first book, "Free Union," yet continues ...
