Driving with the Dead: Poems Martin Blumenson unmasking him as the now

unmasking him as the now formerly anonymous author of the words that had helped to define America in the Declaration of Independence

Increase your self-confidence and self-worth

You are too smart to drown

for some families

to the earliest literary expression of the human race

Driving with the Dead: Poems Martin Blumenson unmasking him as the nowAppalachia is no stranger to loss. The region suffers regular ecological devastation wrought by strip mining, fracking, and deforestation as well as personal tragedy brought on by enduring poverty and drug addiction. In Driving with the Dead, Appalachian poet, teacher, and artist Jane Hicks weaves an earnest and impassioned elegy for an imperiled yet doggedly optimistic people and place. Exploring the roles that war, environment, culture, and violence