Bøger af Julia Nunnally Duncan

A collection of poetry by Julia Nunnally Duncan. Julia is a novelist and poet. Most of the poems in this collection have appeared previously in journals and literary magazines. At Dusk explores small town life in a Western NC milltown. Loneliness and the holding in of secret thoughts are themes that tie the poems together. At Dusk is Julia Nunnally Duncan's second poetry collection, her first being An Endless Tapestry, released by March Street Press in 2007. It was named a finalist in the 2008 Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry and was highly praised in the 2009 issue of North Carolina Literary Review.

All We Have Loved offers an intimate glimpse into a woman's life spent in Western North Carolina. Expressing a reverence for family, place, and friendship, the personal essays in All We Have Loved are a testament to the importance of preserving memories. Spanning from a mother's memories of the Great Depression in a WNC cotton mill village to the author's own 1960s upbringing and current life in rural WNC, this book will enlighten and entertain the reader.

A chance encounter with a forgotten childhood friend makes a woman take stock of her own shortcomings through the years.A rural family's peaceful Sunday night is disrupted by a frightening, unexpected visitor. A charming blind student brings a new perspective to an emotionally distant teacher. A woman is eyewitness to a neighbor's struggle with alcoholism and the tragic outcome of his problems. These incidents and many others are captured in A Place That Was Home. Chronicling a Western North Carolina woman’s experiences from the 1960s to the present, the twenty-one personal essays in A Place That Was Home vividly depict a regional world in which families live, work, and worship and others suffer from dire circumstances. A Place That Was Home invites the reader into this compelling world.