No Lonesome Road - 9780252071577

No Lonesome RoadSELECTED PROSE and POEMS\nAuthor(s): Don West, Jeff Biggers, George Brosi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252071577, 978-0252071577\nSynopsis\nThis is the first book to celebrate the life and writing of one of the most charismatic Southern leaders of the middle twentieth century, Don West [tel]. West was a poet, a pioneer advocate for civil rights, a preacher, a historian, a labor organizer, a folk-music revivalist, an essayist, and an organic farmer. He is perhaps best known as an educator, primarily as cofounder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and founder of the Appalachian South Folklife Center in West Virginia. In his old age, West served as an elder statesman for his causes.\nNo Lonesome Road allows Don West to speak for himself. It provides the most comprehensive collection of his poetry ever published, spanning five decades of his literary career. It also .