Abstract
Reckoning Valerie Nieman (bio) You keep your failures close, intimateas unwashed sheets—that colleague'snovel left untouched in its box,a dead friend's corpus of poemsthat will not see print, an ex-husband who can'tbe shaken loose,a lover who comes closebut not closer. Here is your photo gallery:mountain landscapes emptied of people,still life of moss and rocks,a crayfish surprised outside its burrow,desperately waving its single claw. [End Page 149] Valerie Nieman Valerie Nieman's fourth novel, To the Bones, is a genre-bending satire of the coal industry and its effects on Appalachia. She is the author of three poetry collections and her writing has appeared widely in journals and in numerous anthologies. A graduate of West Virginia University and Queens University of Charlotte and a former journalist, Nieman teaches creative writing at North Carolina A&T State University. Copyright © 2019/2020 Berea College
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