Mountain Gravity - Softcover

Poetry. MOUNTAIN GRAVITY is a stellar debut collection of poems by Laurence Avery. The poems, accessible and erudite at once, touch the reader with historical stories of American Indians who lived in the North Carolina mountains, of contemporary Southern families maturing in a fast paced world, and of Carolina flora and fauna, beloved by Avery, adapting to changing habitats in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

"Avery is alert, direct, quietly witty, and always thoughtful; it is in his poetic nature to appreciate and to celebrate, a difficult thing for many writers to do, but he does it beautifully."—Michael McFee

"The resilient mountains... where these original inhabitants inscribed their tragic, enduring lives, enlarges our consciousness of space and time, and of our communal presence on this Earth. [Avery's] book is a profound alternative to the thin surface of this present."—James Applewhite