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  | | Blackberries, Blackberries(Reprint) (Kentucky Voices) by Crystal Wilkinson, Nikky Finney, Honorée Jeffers Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2017 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6958-3, ISBN: 0-8131-6958-5 "As the title implies, this beautifully written collection bursts with stories reminiscent of blackberries - small, succulent morsels that are inviting and sweet, yet sometimes bitter. Crystal Wilkinson provides an almost voyeuristic glimpse into the lives of her characters: Two misfit teenagers seek stolen moments of love and acceptance in the cloak of night ("Hushed"); a woman spends every waking hour obsessed with dying yet ironically ..." |
 | | Perfect Black (Paperback) by Crystal Wilkinson, Ronald W. Davis, Nikky Finney Paperback, 106 Pages, Published 2021 by The University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-5116-8, ISBN: 0-8131-5116-3 "In one of the first poems that opens the collection she is a woman looking back on her life, on the soil and mountains that first stamped the particular sound of her voice and she is deeply inquisitive about how it all fell into place: "The ..." |
 | | Perfect Black by Wilkinson, Crystal, Davis, Ronald W., Finney, Nikky Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2021 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-5115-1, ISBN: 0-8131-5115-5 |
 | | Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson Hardcover, 257 Pages, Published 2024 by Clarkson Potter ISBN-13: 978-0-593-23651-2, ISBN: 0-593-23651-3 "A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky. “With Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, ..." |
 | | The Birds of Opulence(Reprint) (Kentucky Voices) by Crystal Wilkinson Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2018 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7499-0, ISBN: 0-8131-7499-6 "From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness.The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarr ..." |
 | | Water Street(Reprint) (Kentucky Voices) by Crystal Wilkinson, Marianne Worthington, Jacinda Townsend Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2017 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6910-1, ISBN: 0-8131-6910-0 "The residents of Water Street are hardworking, God-fearing people who live in a seemingly safe and insulated neighborhood within a small Kentucky town: "Water Street is a place where mothers can turn their backs to flip a pancake or cornmeal hoecake on the stove and know our children are safe." But all is not as it seems as the secret lives of neighbors and friends are revealed in interconnected tales of love, loss, truth, and tragedy. ..." |
 | | Kentucky Voices Ser. The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson 208 Pages, Published 2015 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6693-3, ISBN: 0-8131-6693-4 "They say he got fighting mad when white folks called this 'nigger town' so he put up a sign twenty foot long across the road here saying this place was to be called Opulence. Course a lot of people around here then didn't know what that meant ..." |
 | | The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson 216 Pages, Published 2015 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6692-6, ISBN: 0-8131-6692-6 "... “Minnie Mae Goode, wife of Henry Goode. A fine woman, an old-time woman. Amen.” He plants the second bush where he thinks daffodils used to grow up near the house. “Nora Jean Goode, Tookie they called her. Woman had a hard life, ..." |
 | | Talking Appalachian Voice, Identity, and Community by Amy D. Clark, Nancy M. Hayward, Michael Ellis, Jaime Wagner Flesher, Erin Simmons, Professor Anita Puckett, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, George Ella Lyon, Silas House, Lee Smith, Jane Hicks, Rita Quillen, Crystal Wilkinson, Anne Shelby, Katherine Sohn, Ronald Rash, Denise Giardina, Michael Montgomery Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-4096-4, ISBN: 0-8131-4096-X "Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflattering stereotypes and cultural discrimination associated with their style of speech, Appalachians have organized to preserve regional dialects -- complex forms of English peppered with words, phrases, and pronunciations unique to the area and it ..." |
 | | Mythium A Journal of Contemporary Literature, No.3, 2011 by Ronald Davis, Crystal Wilkinson Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2011 by Wind Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-936138-38-8, ISBN: 1-936138-38-7 "A Journal of Contemporary Literature celebrating writers of color and the cultural voice." |
 | | Degrees of Elevation Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia by Page Seay, Contributor-Silas House, Contributor-Valerie Nieman, Contributor-Chris Holbrook, Charles Dodd White, Contributor-Chris Offutt, Contributor-Richard Hague, Contributor-Crystal Wilkinson, Contributor-Rusty Barnes, Contributor-Paul Mcmanus, Contributor-Ron Rash, Contributor-Jim Nichols, Contributor-Alex Taylor, Contributor-Mark Powell, Contributor-Denton Loving, Jarrid Deaton, Mindy Beth Miller, Sheldon Lee Compton Paperback, 186 Pages, Published 2010 by Bottom Dog Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933964-39-3, ISBN: 1-933964-39-1 "Fiction. "Hard, brilliant, and dark as coal, this brand new and necessary volume captures Appalachia today, a place where the old bedrock verities of family, community, belief, work, and the earth itself are all in painful "Upheaval"—to use the title of Chris Holbrook's story herein. From manic to elegiac to rough, raw, beautiful, and heartbreaking, these stories will strike the reader as both absolutely true and as unforgettable, like ..." |
 | | Talking Appalachian(Reprint) Voice, Identity, and Community by Jeffrey Reaser, Erin Simmons, Walt Wolfram, Silas House, Jane Hicks, Rita Quillen, Crystal Wilkinson, Lee Smith, Michael Ellis, Anne Shelby, Katherine Sohn, Ronald Rash, Denise Giardina, Michael Montgomery, Kirk Hazen, Amy D. Clark, Nancy M. Hayward, George Ella Lyon, Jaime Wagner Flesher, Professor Anita Puckett, Anita Puckett, Fenton Johnson Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2014 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-4743-7, ISBN: 0-8131-4743-3 "Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflattering stereotypes and cultural discrimination associated with their style of speech, Appalachians have organized to preserve regional dialects -- complex forms of English peppered with words, phrases, and pronunciations unique to the area and it ..." |
 | | Mythium 1.2, 2010 by Ronald Davis, Crystal Wilkinson, Wind Publications Paperback, 186 Pages, Published 2010 by Wind Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-936138-17-3, ISBN: 1-936138-17-4 "A Journal of Contemporary Literature Celebrating Writers of Color and the Cultural Voice" |
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