Gilson A.C. Waldkoenig

The Appalachian Archive

Arts & Literature

“This spiritual map of the ineffable in the nearby will guide seekers and thinkers, doubters and singers of all sorts. From ‘the hollows of my bones,’ Appalachian poet Randolph yearns to ‘speak God’s name in the marrow’ and invite us into ‘secret rain that enlivens our hearts.’ Walk with this poet through The Appalachian Archive and find that our ‘strange jar made of mortality’ is ‘filled with forever.’”