Abstract:
Jeffrey Franklin examines the state of poetry in North Carolina by reviewing three collections of North Carolina poetry. Spill, by poet Michael Chitwood, is a multi-faceted collection of poems pertaining to family, God, and death. Julia Nunnaly Duncan's An Endless Tapestry is a collection of Appalachian poetry focusing in the not so distant past of North Carolina. The Golden Ratio, by Keith Flynn is a dazzling assortment of characters and situations covering a range of psychological, metaphysical, historical, aesthetic, and political topics.