One of Everything(1st Edition) (Cleveland Poets Series) by DianeGilliamFisher Paperback, 59 Pages, Published 2003 by Cleveland State University Poetry Center ISBN-13: 978-1-880834-60-2, ISBN: 1-880834-60-X
"Music as wild as a dance tune on a country fiddle, and as slow and sad as a shape note hymn informs Diane Gilliam Fisher's complex poems. . . . This narrative of three generations of women with roots in the coal camps and prayer meetings of the southern Appalachian mountains is ". . . one/long history/or the verb/to bear.". . . I am grateful to welcome this necessary book to the table."
Recipe for Blackberry Cake(1st Edition) by DianeGilliamFisher Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 2004 by The Kent State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87338-643-2, ISBN: 0-87338-643-4
"Recipe for Blackberry Cake is a collection of poems about women’s lives―poems about girlhood, about mothers and daughters, about how relationships between women are distorted by violence in the home. The poems tell the stories of four generations of women, beginning in the coal camps of West Virginia in the late 1940s and ending in a shopping mall in Ohio some 50 years later. At the heart of the collection is the choice to tell how dang ..."
"Winner of the 2004 Perugia Press Prize, as well as the 2008 Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, Kettle Bottom was named an American Booksellers Association Book Sense Top Ten Poetry Book for 2005. It also was the Ohioana Library Association Poetry Book of the Year, and a finalist for the Weatherford Award of the Appalachian Studies Association. It was selected for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize XXX:Best of the S ..."
Dreadful Wind & Rain(1st Edition) by DianeGilliamFisher Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Red Hen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-749-9, ISBN: 1-59709-749-7
"Once upon a time, there lived a girl whose story was not her own. . . So the story goes: Neglected and abused by her family, eclipsed by her elder and more beautiful sister, a young girl longs for happily-ever-after, for something, someone to rescue her. She is soon swept away into the next chapter of her life: marriage―a promising world mirroring Old Testament stories and fairy tale traditions. But loving just anyone and living the age ..."