Permanent Camp
Poems, Narratives and Renderings from the Smokies
Published on 22. May 2012
190 pages
978-1-62584-082-0 (ISBN)
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Walking west of Bryson City, North Carolina, on July 1, 1976, George and Elizabeth Ellison happened upon a magical cove tucked into Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It held a small house of many windows, a shining creek, a tree-lined meadow and a pathway into a dark forest. They moved in for the summer and never left, defying Kephart's notion that all camps are temporary. For nearly forty years, this secluded spot has been the touchstone of their work as author and artist. These interrelated poems, narratives, renderings, notes and paintings form an artistic whole in praise of the outer and inner landscapes within which we all reside.
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George Ellison lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation. His columns appear in the Asheville Citizen-Times; Chinquapin: The Newsletter of the Southern Appalachian; and the Smoky Mountain News. He conducts annual natural and human history workshops for the North Carolina Arboretum, Native Plant Conference at Western Carolina University, Smoky Mountain Field School, and North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Artwork Specifications
- A Note to the Reader
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Permanent Camp
- 2. By My Window
- 3. High Rocks (August 1982)
- 4. Composition Book
- 5. Yet Another Near-Perfect Creek Bend
- 6. When Rocks Were Handy and Free
- 7. Gravity Flow
- 8. Deeplow Gap
- 9. Down in Somerset (1798)
- 10. Enskyment
- 11. Looking for a Lost Horse
- 12. Don't Walk Fast
- 13. "What Do You Do?" She Asked
- 14. Winter Light
- 15. Secret Ministries
- 16. Transported By the Cold
- 17. Another Sunrise
- 18. Perscriptions
- 19. The Mountains Move Around
- 20. The Light in Your Eyes
- 21. Fire in the Cove
- 22. After the Fire
- 23. Sleepless
- 24. Fuel
- 25. Even in Winter
- 26. Sing Us That Old Song!
- 27. Beneath the Flaming Cardinal Flower
- 28. The Pea-Green Light
- 29. Sitting Alone in the Kitchen Thinking About Things
- 30. Kingfisher's Return
- 31. Edgy Patches
- 32. Say Blue
- 33. The Clarity of Chickweed
- 34. Radiance A-zweep'en (In Praise of William Barnes)
- 35. Exempli Gratia
- 36. By the Taste in Your Mouth
- 37. Two Chinese Poets: T'ao Ch'ien and Han Shan
- Preface: Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine
- No. V: Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine
- On Moving House
- A Farewell Letter to Yin Ching-jen
- [Opening Lines From an Untitled Poem]
- Guffawing in the Wilderness: 13 Poems by Han Shan
- Walking These High Trails Alone
- 38. Critters
- Cherokee Sacred Formulas
- 39. Masters of Enchantment
- Calling Like a Distant Bird
- To My Enemy
- Examine the Stones!
- Francesco Petrarch
- 40. Burning with Doubtful Strife
- 41. Mr. Thrasher Composes Haiku Riddles in His Spare Time
- 42. Just Around the Bend (Fred Houk Jr., 1951-2007)
- 43. Our Final Destination
- 44. How Long Will It Take?
- 45. Dogs & Ghosts: A Fable in Three Parts
- 46. Stones From the Nearby Creek Bed
- 47. Waterways
- 48. Night Land
- 49. When Salamanders Sing
- 50. Son of Mine
- 51. A Red Fox in the Rain
- 52. That's Not Snot
- 53. When I Was a Boy
- 54. When the Hawk Dreams.She Dreams of These Mountains
- 55. 7 March 1978
- 56. 14 Lines for Dayes-Eghe
- 57. The Wrought-Iron Gate Rose
- 58. God's Horses
- 59. Wind Rose
- 60. Seeing You
- 61. The Shining Levels
- 62. In Every Direction
- 63. A Land of Blue Shadows
- 64. Old Circumstances
- Notes on Renderings
- About the Author and Artist
