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State of the Heart
South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love
For writers beloved places can captivate, teach, comfort, and occasionally haunt. In this collection contributors reflect on their hometowns, the rivers and roads that marked their lives' journeys, and the maligned neighborhoods they transformed just by living and working in them. Family beach vacations, churches and churchyards, athletic arenas modest and grand, a mountain vista, a quiet pond, a city park, an old-time produce market, Lake Murray, Brookgreen Gardens—these are just a sampling of the nearly three dozen private and public places favored by this diverse group of writers of fiction, memoir, poetry, history, journalism, and more. Photographs, artwork, verse, and even a few recipes accompany the essays, bringing readers further into sharing the writers' experiences.
While State of the Heart is rooted in the landscape of South Carolina, readers from anywhere will relate to its universal themes of growing up and growing old, recognition of past mistakes, returned-to faith, the closeness of family and friends, honoring those who came before, and setting our collective sights on the promise of the future for cherished people and places.
Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina's poet laureate, provides the foreword to this collection, which includes her poem "One River, One Boat."
Reviews
"Aida Rogers has gathered a remarkable group of the Palmetto State's best writers and in her doing so State of the Heart gives readers a tour of South Carolina that transcends time and geography, capturing the immense but often conflicted soul of the state."—Ron Rash, author of Above the Waterfall
"What an amazing mix South Carolina is. She's a library where quick fun-read paperbacks press against solemn leather bound tomes, a family reunion with rich and poor and black and white, with our gracious plenty of everybody crowding around this homemade trestle table. One thing binds these essays. Each one is written from the heart."—William Baldwin, author of The Hard to Catch Mercy
"Aida Rogers has gathered a remarkable group of the Palmetto State's best writers and in her doing so State of the Heart gives readers a tour of South Carolina that transcends time and geography, capturing the immense but often conflicted soul of the state."—Ron Rash, author of Above the Waterfall
Hardback | |
October 2, 2015 | |
9781611175967 | |
English | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
1.05 Pounds (US) | |
$39.99 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Paperback / softback | |
October 2, 2015 | |
9781611175974 | |
English | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
.75 Pounds (US) | |
$19.99 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Other Titles by Aida Rogers
Writing South Carolina
Writing South Carolina
State of the Heart
Other Titles by Marjory Wentworth
Writing South Carolina
New and Selected Poems
Seeking
Other Titles from Non Series
A Guidebook to South Carolina Historical Markers
Live at Jackson Station
Monumental Harm
Other Titles in LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
The Cancer Crisis in Appalachia
French Guiana
Writing Beyond the End Times? / Écrire au-delà de la fin des temps ?