Voice Hunting

Larry D. Thacker is a fiction and non-fiction writer and poet, essayist, and author of "Mountain The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia" (2007, Overmoutain Press). His poetry has been included in the "Still Journal", "The Emancipator", and "Motif 2". His Columns have appeared in the "Middlesboro Daily News" and "Premiere Overlook" and he writes and occasional reader's blog for the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer". Follow "Blogsmack", his personal blog www.blogsmackthacker.blogspot.com "Voice Hunting chronicles a Generation X Appalachian's search for identity. In a world where television homogenizes culture, Larry Thacker examines the duality of his generation. Clearly identifying with many ways of his ancestors, Thacker speaks out about the atrocities of mountain top removal and enviromental destruction that not only destroy landscape but culture. The poems are moving and uplifting and the found voice is on worth hearing." -Jane Hicks, 'Blood & Bone Poems of Appalachia