WWJD and Other Poems
Sipple, Savannah
Savannah Sipple's debut is proof of a woman rising-up from the strung-out, Christ-haunted carcinogens and violences of a land stripped of its coal, up fromnine-hours on her feet followed by the extra work back home of picking gravel out of pinto beans, up from a return visit to the honey-suckle sweetness of goodchurch folks who whisper 'backslider' and 'quare.' Purging shame with every line, these poems love the Kentucky from which they rise a...