The Light Is Everywhere - Depta, Victor

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Résumé :
A gathering of 5 veteran Appalachian poets who embrace the zen Buddhist aspects of that life. The book is the publication of two Appalachian presses. Blair Mountain Press and Bottom Dog Press. It features the work of Victor Depta. Edwina Pendarvis, Barbara Sabol, Timothy Russell, and Larry Smith...

Biographie:
Yokohama and Fukuoka in Japan...

Sommaire:
Since we are focusing on Appalachia and Zen, to say that I am a coal-camp hillbilly is appropriate since I was born in the mountains and raised for fifteen years in the coal camps of Logan County, West Virginia, the result of which has been a lifelong hostility towards industrial capitalism, the economic exploitation of miners and the decimation of the environment. The other effect of the mountains is the Pentecostal passion for a spiritually ecstatic experience of God.Escape from that hillbilly hell-in-paradise is, of course, the military. My four years in the Navy felt like the old-fashioned Grand Tour: Imperial Beach, California...