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
haunted might
I've always been haunted that he might have been.
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.
boy shot took
They took a 12-year-old boy and took him out and shot him.
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.
assumption
You can't make that assumption about 'we' being the losers.
loss choices profit
A small profit it better than a big loss
vulnerable vulnerability
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
reading achievement world
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.
taken
Don't love anything that can be taken away.
eagles rattlesnakes hunts
I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.
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.
world terrible happened
A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world
philosophical character writing
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's.
grief losing-someone tree
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.