Permanent Camp: Poems, Narratives and Renderings from the Smokies (Paperback)

Staff Reviews

What an occasion the publication of Permanent Camp marks! Inveterate naturalist and student of the southern Appalachians, George Ellison returns to his roots as a poet after having complied an impressive array of prose works. As with many of these previous titles, such as Blue Ridge Nature Journal and Mountain Passages, Permanent Camp is made visually stunning by the accompanying watercolors and pen and ink washes of George's wife Elizabeth. The poems included in this collection range from crystalline haiku, to longer narrative pieces that spring from epigraphs as thoughtful responses to the works of other writers who have also roamed and loved these mountains.

What an occasion the publication of Permanent Camp marks! Inveterate naturalist andstudent of the southern Appalachians, George Ellison returns to his roots as a poet afterhaving complied an impressive array of prose works. As with many of these previoustitles, such as Blue Ridge Nature Journal and Mountain Passages, Permanent Camp ismade visually stunning by the accompanying watercolors and pen and ink washes ofGeorge's wife Elizabeth. The poems included in this collection range from crystallinehaiku, to longer narrative pieces that spring from epigraphs as thoughtful responses to theworks of other writers who have also roamed and loved these mountains.