Ron Rash
Ron Rash
Ron Rash, an American poet, short story writer and novelist, is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
hands my-favorite luke
Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.
family fought grow white
I think a lot of times when you grow up in the South, if you're white at least, you think your family fought Confederate.
century enjoyed journal medical research teach
I think one thing I enjoyed most was doing medical research for the doctor's journal because I really had to teach myself 19th century medicine.
haunted might
I've always been haunted that he might have been.
boy shot took
They took a 12-year-old boy and took him out and shot him.
assumption
You can't make that assumption about 'we' being the losers.
looks hearing atrocities
The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.
track mind fields
I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.
thinking
As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.
good-day hard-times littles
It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)
baby tears world
It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start
sea ideas caves
Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.
long landscape north-carolina
I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.
writing different diaries
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.