Hounds on the Mountain of Piano in a Sycamore:

of Piano in a Sycamore: Writing Lessons from the Appalachian Writers' Workshop and is author of a poetry chapbook

entertaining

fears what will happen the more entrenched they become in fundamentalist thinking and finds herself in a fight to save the people she loves from self-destruction

Narrated by a young boy (a cousin of the narrator of Still's classic novel River of Earth)

and examples of Still's use of the "sayings" in poetry and prose

Hounds on the Mountain of Piano in a Sycamore:First published in 1937, Hounds on the Mountain evokes James Still's personal experiences of eastern Kentucky through reflective folk poems describing Appalachian mountain life from birth through death. Written during the Great Depression, the collection emphasizes a collective reliance on the earth and the primacy of nature that Still observed from the seclusion of his thirty acre home in Knott County, Kentucky. Still, who became known as the "Dean