by Evelyn McAmis Bales
"Anyone with a heart will love the magic of Kinkeeper. Evelyn McAmis Bales understands the threads that bind our ancestors to us and us to those that follow. She tells the reader of her own life threads in poetry that is both eloquent and earthy - true to the people she knows and loves."
N. Brent Kennedy Author of The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People
"In poetry that is as honest as it is unique, Evelyn McAmis Bales divines her geneaology like hot jam flowing over biscuit bread like wine."
Thomas Rain Crowe
Editor of Writing the Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (The New Celtic Poetry)
"This compact gathering of poems unfolds for us the verities of community and family life in a rich profuson of telling detail, from historical narratives to modern lyric poems of honest, hard-won music and insight."
Jim Clark
Author of Handiwork
Evelyn McAmis Bales, a poet living in Kingsport, Tennessee is a seventh-generation Tennessean descended from Scots-Irish who settled in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina. Her poems and stories have been published throughout the Appalachian region and beyond.
<p>by Evelyn McAmis Bales</p>
<p>“Anyone with a heart will love the magic of Kinkeeper. Evelyn McAmis Bales understands the threads that bind our ancestors to us and us to those that follow. She tells the reader of her own life threads in poetry that is both eloquent and earthy – true to the people she knows and loves.” <br />N. Brent Kennedy Author of The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People<br />“In poetry that is as honest as it is unique, Evelyn McAmis Bales divines her geneaology like hot jam flowing over biscuit bread like wine.” <br />Thomas Rain Crowe<br />Editor of Writing the Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (The New Celtic Poetry)<br />“This compact gathering of poems unfolds for us the verities of community and family life in a rich profuson of telling detail, from historical narratives to modern lyric poems of honest, hard-won music and insight.” <br />Jim Clark<br />Author of Handiwork<br />Evelyn McAmis Bales, a poet living in Kingsport, Tennessee is a seventh-generation Tennessean descended from Scots-Irish who settled in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina. Her poems and stories have been published throughout the Appalachian region and beyond.</p>2007-10-10T15:19:07-04:00kinkeeper815932Poetry2007-10-10T15:19:07-04:00Kinkeeper2008-03-06T19:59:59-05:00Bales, Evelyn McAmispoetry2007-10-10T15:19:07-04:00manual01680702deny1paperback112.00815932978-0-974111-62-9paperback2008-03-06T19:59:59-05:002007-10-10T15:19:07-04:00153514218159322008-03-06T19:59:59-05:00http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0003/7221/products/kinkeeper.jpg?1250382874