Salt River Anthology: with a drawing by Richard Taylor

Monterey, Kentucky:: Larkspur Press,, 2014.. Special edition of 36. 5 x 7.375"; 56 pages. Printed on Somerset Book Paper. Handset in Garamond type. Printed on a hand-fed C&P. Handbound by Carolyn Whitesel in her own decorated paste papers with cloth spine. Dust wrapper. Design, composition, printing, and binding by Leslie Shane, Carolyn Whitesel, and Gray Zeitz. Numbered. Signed by poet and artist. A series of poems in the style of a triolet - a single stanza poem of eight lines with a rhyme scheme of ABaAaBAB; the first, fourth, and seventh lines identical as are the second and eighth, making the initial and final couplets identical - featuring the people in the Salt River community. Larkspur Press: "Charlie Hughes grew up in Kentucky on a small tobacco farm - land transected by the Southern Railway and bordered by the Salt River. During the nights the rumbling echo of freight trains rattled the windows of the little farmhouse. As a youngster he did not embrace what he considered the drudgery of the farm; however, he often revisits that locale in his writing. "Richard Taylor, a Kentucky poet laureate, is a poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher, as well as a creator of fine art: line drawing, watercolor, oils, and wood engraving.