Light at the Seam: Poems

By Joseph Bathanti

Light at the Seam, a new collection from North Carolina poet Joseph Bathanti, is an exploration of mountaintop removal in southern Appalachian coal country. The volume illuminates and champions often invisible people residing, in a precarious moment in time, on the glorious, yet besieged, Appalachian earth. Their call to defend it, as well as their faith that the land will exact its own reckoning, constitutes a sacred as well as existential quest. Rooted in social and restorative justice, Light at the Seam contemplates the earth as fundamentally sacramental, a crucible of awe and mystery, able to regenerate itself and its people even as it succumbs to them. More than mere cautionary tale, this is a volume of hope and wonder.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807176923
• ISBN13: 9780807176924
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"