A Red Shadow of Steel Mills (Midwest Writers Series) [Paperback]

David Shevin (Editor), Larry Smith (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

Review

At The Industrial Accidents Clinic by David J. Adams
August, 1974 by David J. Adams
Country Road No. 1 by David J. Adams
Country Road No. 4 by David J. Adams
Country Road No. 5 by David J. Adams
Country Road No. 6 by David J. Adams
Country Road No. 7 by David J. Adams
Country Road No. 9 by David J. Adams
A Domestic Scene by David J. Adams
Gray Not Morning's Eye; For Karen Gabay & Raymond Rodriquez by David J. Adams
Lake Country by David J. Adams
Looking At A Map Of The Midwest Interurban Lines by David J. Adams
A Migrant's Late Breakfast by David J. Adams
My Love Affair With Elvis by David J. Adams
A Road With Walnut Trees by David J. Adams
Setback by David J. Adams
A Summer Wife by David J. Adams
Three Soldiers At Euclid Beach: 1944 by David J. Adams
Two Women At War Over A Scoundrel: W 65th & Detroit Avenue by David J. Adams
A Woman Buying Taffy Kisses by David J. Adams
A Woman In A Trailer Park by David J. Adams
Burning Lady (after A Story My Grandfather Told) by Richard Hague
Deck Hand by Richard Hague
Finished With The Poetry Of Coal by Richard Hague
Harley Simms Sends Word To Williamson Coal by Richard Hague
Jefferson County Suicide by Richard Hague
Legends by Richard Hague
A Letter From Isaiah Ross, Squatter .. Mingo Bottom, Ohio by Richard Hague
Listening Again: 1957 by Richard Hague
The Measure by Richard Hague
Near What Was Once Harmon Creek by Richard Hague
Neighbors by Richard Hague
One Summer by Richard Hague
The Pierce Place, Sunday Walkers Called It by Richard Hague
Runout by Richard Hague
Sacks: A Folk Declension by Richard Hague
Shooting Nine-ball At T.r.'s; Steubenville, 1963 by Richard Hague
Testament by Richard Hague
Water by Richard Hague
Black Lung by Kip Knott
Endangered by Kip Knott
Explosion At Sunday Creek Mine by Kip Knott
In The Rust Belt: At Dusk by Kip Knott
In The Rust Belt: Balloon Ride by Kip Knott
In The Rust Belt: Driving Through Amish Country by Kip Knott
In The Rust Belt: Living In The Rust Belt by Kip Knott
In The Rust Belt: Preserve by Kip Knott
In The Rust Belt: River Watch by Kip Knott
Inheriting Sunday Creek by Kip Knott
The Lesson by Kip Knott
Lost Fires by Kip Knott
Lying In A Field On The Eve Of My Wedding by Kip Knott
The Man Planting Trees by Kip Knott
Mine Shaft by Kip Knott
Remodeling by Kip Knott
Sick Day by Kip Knott
Sleeping Grandpa's House by Kip Knott
Songs by Kip Knott
The Sounding by Kip Knott
The Test by Kip Knott
Where Orion Hunts by Kip Knott
Words Not Meant To Be Spoken by Kip Knott
In Abitrium Alieno by Timothy Russell
In Absentia by Timothy Russell
In Actu by Timothy Russell
In Adversa, Sels. by Timothy Russell
In Ambiguo by Timothy Russell
In Apertu Luce by Timothy Russell
In Banco by Timothy Russell
In Bonus Defuncti by Timothy Russell
In Cardine by Timothy Russell
In Continenti by Timothy Russell
In Dorso by Timothy Russell
In Iisdem Terminis by Timothy Russell
In Integrum by Timothy Russell
In Ipsis Faucibus by Timothy Russell
In Medias Res by Timothy Russell
In Misercordia by Timothy Russell
In Multum by Timothy Russell
In Notis by Timothy Russell
In Novus Ordo by Timothy Russell
In Perpetuum by Timothy Russell
In Personam by Timothy Russell
In Re by Timothy Russell
In Rerum Natura by Timothy Russell
In Tenebris by Timothy Russell
In Testimonium by Timothy Russell
In Vadio by Timothy Russell
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Bottom Dog Press (January 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933087187
• ISBN-13: 978-0933087187
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,181,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Larry Smith is a native of Mingo Junction, Ohio, in Appalachia's Panhandle region of the Ohio River Valley. Smith has worked as a steel mill laborer, a high school teacher, a college professor, and a writer and editor. A graduate of Mingo Central High School, Muskingum College, and Kent State University, he is the author of seven books of poetry, a book of memoirs, four books of fiction, two biographies of authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Patchen, and two books of translations from the Chinese.
Now a professor emeritus of Bowling Green State University's Firelands College, he is the director of the Firelands Writing Center there and of Bottom Dog Press. Smith has received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and a Fulbright Lectureship in American Literature to Italy. The author is a requested speaker on creative writing, publishing, American Transcendental writers, Zen Buddhist writings, and working-class literature.
Smith is the father of three adult children, and is married to Ann Smith a family counselor and professor emerita of Nursing at the Toledo University of Ohio. Most recently he is the author of THE FREE FARM: A NOVEL the Working Lives and Appalachian Writing Series from Bottom Dog Press and a pictoral history of his hometown Mingo Junction in the Images of America series from Arcadia Publishing. His books include:

The Free Farm: A Novel (Bottom Dog Press, 2011)
Mingo Junction: Images of America Series (Arcadia Publishing 2011)
Tu Fu Comes to America: A Story in Poems (March Street Press, 2010)
The Long River Home: A Novel, Working Lives Series 2009
The Kanshi Poems of Taigu Ryokan, translations 2009
Faces and Voices: Tales. 2006.
A River Remains: Poems. 2006.
Milldust & Roses: Memoirs. 2005.
Thoreu's Lost Journal: Poems. 2001.
Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America (Biography). 2000.
Chinese Zen Poems: What Hold Has This Mountain? translations 1998.
Working It Out (novel) 1998.
Beyond Rust: Novella and Stories. 1995.
Steel Valley: Postcards and Letters (Poems). 1992.
Ohio Zen Poems with d. steven conkle (A Twinbook). 1989.
Across These States (Journal Poem). 1985.
Scissors, Paper, Rock (Prose Poems). 1982.
Echo Without Sound (Poems with Etchings by Stephen Smigocki). 1982.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-at-Large (Literary biography). 1983.
Kenneth Patchen (Literary biography). 1978.