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Title details for Blanche: Poems of a Blue Ridge Woman by Brenda Kay Ledford - Available

Blanche: Poems of a Blue Ridge Woman

by Brenda Kay Ledford
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North Carolina Society of Historians "Paul Green Multimedia Award" winner! In Blanche, Brenda Kay Ledford and her mother wear the surrounding Trout Cove like a charm. A log cabin appears in the scratches of chickens. A lonesome whippoorwill’s call at Rainbow Falls echoes mother and daughter as one with the Blue Ridge Mountains where clouds look like angels riding chariots in a hymn. Startlingly authentic, looming universally for a region the poet knows, Blanche “fords the stream,” makes “lye soap,” does laundry on “wash day” with “gnarled hands” among “wildflowers” that are “old friends.” The Blue Ridge Mountains rise--alive!--Shelby Stephenson, former Poet Laurate of North Carolina, 2015-2018, author of Shelby’s Lady: The Hog Poems Blanche comes to life in this memoir of poems. Ledford chronicles her mother’s life, flour sacks and all.

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