Among the Believers
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Among the Believers
by Authors:
Ron Rash
Released: April, 2000
ISBN: 0916078507
Paperback
Sales Rank: 336,119
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$12.00
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Customer Review #1:
 Buy this book
If you love poetry and dont have this one, then youre missing the best collection to come out in years. This book should have won the Pulitzer for poetry. Enough said. Its stunning, beautiful, wonderful. And Ron Rash didnt even pay me to say that.
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Customer Review #2:
Made me a believer
...in Rashs talent, that is. AMONG THE BELIEVERS is a modestly scaled collection of poems that packs a wallop. The power comes from the seeming effortlessness of Rashs rhythms and images in poems set among the "everyday" folk of the Carolina Appalachians who, in their struggles with life, love, redemption, and death, turn out to be something more than ordinary. Here the poet is storyteller, bard, confessor, recorder, and lover of these people. His reverence for them shows in his refusal ever to condescend and with the fresh-eyed wonder and beauty with which he renders the world they live in. The late Anthony Hecht provides a kind and insightful foreward to the poem and never hyperbolizes the merits of Rashs writing. This collection may very well establish itself as a classic.
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Customer Review #3:
 Rash-ional Poet at large
Rashs love of family and simpler times are vividly evident in his writings. His narrative and evocative language mentally sketch the reader into the center of each setting. It is easy to envision the events, thoughts, and feelings that inspired Rash to capture that partiular moment and preserve it in his words. This book is a "must read" for poet lovers and non poet lovers alike.
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