Book description
What Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky's most
accomplished contemporary poets. Together they serve to illustrate the
diversity and richness of poetry being written today in the
Commonwealth. The poems were collected by Jeff Worley, a poet who has
lived in Kentucky for more than two decades. Although the subject matter
of the poems transcends the state's borders, the collection communicates
a strong sense of Kentucky as a place. Worley's introduction places
contemporary Kentucky poetry in the context of the state's rich literary
tradition, and the poet biographies include their reflections and,
often, their poetic approach and technique. Jeff Worley is the author
of three collections of poetry including The Only Time There Is, which
won the Mid-List Press first-book competition in 1995, A Simple Human
Motion, and Happy Hour at the Two Keys Tavern, which was named 2006
Kentucky Book of the Year in poetry. His poems have been published
widely, and he won the Atlanta Review 2002 grand prize for the poem,
“His Funeral.” Worley has served as editor of Odyssey magazine since
1997.
