Blue Ridge Pie

“This, the poet’s second collection, updates his experience after his return to the United States from a thirteen-year stay in Italy. It reverses the terms of his first book, The Threshold of the New (University of South Caroline Press, 1997), in which his life in Italy is described as beginning with his leaving the Appalachians behind for the Apennines. In Blue Ridge Pie the locus of experience is the northern-most extension of the Blue Ridge Mountains. If the effort of his first book was to show how a middle-aged innocent abroad could come to imagine himself ‘at home’ in Italy, the thrust of this second is to suggest another unlikely accommodation for the sometime expatriate in the mountains of western Maryland.”

This book, especially remarkable for the long ballad “Blue Ridge Pie” which closes its contents, was printed privately, the poet having grown impatient with the folderol of the industry.

A limited number of copies is available by request.