Acknowledgment of Permissions

“Ramble Two: Wetness” is from Roy Blount Jr’s 2005 book Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans, printed with permission from Crown Publishers.

Sonny Brewer’s “Introduction” to Stories from the Blue Moon Café IV was published by MacAdam/Cage.

John A. Burrison’s “A Medieval Folktale in the Georgia Mountains: A Tale-Hunting Adventure” from Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South is reproduced with permission from the University of Georgia Press.

The prologue from Salvation on Sand Mountain (The Perseus Books Group) by Dennis Covington was published in 1996.

“An Ode to Gone with the Wind” by Pearl Cleage was printed Spring 2006 in Oxford American.

The essay “Open House” by John T. Edge first appeared in the January 2003 edition of the Oxford American. It is a finalist for the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation.

Ann Fisher-Wirth’s poem “Moth” can be found in her book Five Terraces, published in 2005 by Wind Publications.

Nikki Giovanni "400 Mulvaney Street" was first published in 1971 in the book Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet.

 “Alma Laura” is a chapter in Jim Grimsley’s third novel My Drowning (Algonquin Books), for which in 1997 he was named Georgia Author of the Year.

“The Elixir” is a chapter from Sheri Joseph’s debut novel, Bear Me Safely Over (Grove/Atlantic Press), published in 2002. It was first appeared in the Georgia Review and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in 1999. 

“Giving Way” is printed with permission from Terry Kay and can be read in Special Kay: The Wisdom of Terry Kay, a gathering of columns and essays published in 2000 by Hill Street Press.

Jack Pendarvis’ “Your Body is Changing” appeared on nerve.com and in the anthology A Cast of Characters (McAdam/Cage), edited by Sonny Brewer.

"Truck Tire Outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1936" by Josh Russell originally appeared in Epoch, the Cornell University-based literary magazine.

“Hurricane Season” comes from Marjory Heath Wentworth’s book Noticing Eden, published by Hub City Press in October 2003.

In addition to those noted, all authors granted permission for their work to be reproduced.