- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
-
1 A Place to Begin -
2 Old Enough to Go Traipsing -
3 The Model Scout -
4 Working His Way -
5 Mentors, Friends, and Patron -
6 The Scholar’s Tale -
7 A Practical Degree -
8 “19-Dirty-one” -
9 To the Jumping-off Place -
10 Hindman Becomes a Haven -
11 Beyond the Hills, 1935–1940 -
12 A Man Singing to Himself -
13 Jolly in a Courting Mood -
14 Joining Up and Shipping Out -
15 Somewhere in Africa -
16 Coming Home Again -
17 On Dead Mare Branch -
18 Back to Hindman -
19 Family Loss and Brotherly Love -
20 On to Morehead -
21 Then-what Days -
22 Making Friends and Keeping Them -
23 Pattern of a Writer in Pursuit of Publication -
24 Still the Explorer, 1972–1990 -
25 Jolly and Godey -
26 Jim Wayne and Anson -
27 At Home in This World -
28 Invitation to the Eternal - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
On Dead Mare Branch
On Dead Mare Branch
- Chapter:
- (p.229) 17 On Dead Mare Branch
- Source:
- James Still
- Author(s):
Carol Boggess
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter describes Still’s first year home after his discharge from the Army. One story “Cedar of Lebanon” is loosely based on his process of reintegration. Included in the chapter are excerpts from a 1947 diary in which he recorded daily activities. He preserved his independence but also experienced isolation. In 1950 and 1951 he returned to Yaddo but was not able to regain his pre-war levels of productivity and publication.
Keywords: Dead Mare Branch, reintegration, 1947 diary, Yaddo, low productivity
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
-
1 A Place to Begin -
2 Old Enough to Go Traipsing -
3 The Model Scout -
4 Working His Way -
5 Mentors, Friends, and Patron -
6 The Scholar’s Tale -
7 A Practical Degree -
8 “19-Dirty-one” -
9 To the Jumping-off Place -
10 Hindman Becomes a Haven -
11 Beyond the Hills, 1935–1940 -
12 A Man Singing to Himself -
13 Jolly in a Courting Mood -
14 Joining Up and Shipping Out -
15 Somewhere in Africa -
16 Coming Home Again -
17 On Dead Mare Branch -
18 Back to Hindman -
19 Family Loss and Brotherly Love -
20 On to Morehead -
21 Then-what Days -
22 Making Friends and Keeping Them -
23 Pattern of a Writer in Pursuit of Publication -
24 Still the Explorer, 1972–1990 -
25 Jolly and Godey -
26 Jim Wayne and Anson -
27 At Home in This World -
28 Invitation to the Eternal - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
