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Jesse Stuart gives advice. Funny enough, this book arrived in the mail today and I couldn’t help but share the photo. This is an interesting book of previously published poems that Stuart arranged to somewhat mirror his life’s journey. “I Shall Go Back to Earth” shows a bit of Stuart’s love of rurality, and the rhyme scheme that I shy away from, but I’m not sure I can think of any other American author who writes Spring quite as well as him. First edition, deluxe edition, signed and limited 33/145. Leather binding is Fine in Very good hard slipcase. . . . . . . . #jessestuart #theseasonsofjessestuart #rarebooks #firstedition #bookcollection #bookcollecting #bookcollection #bibliophile #bookporn #bookhunting #bookstagram #modernfirsts #modernfirsteditions #finebooks #signedbooks #shelfie #southernliterature #southernlit #tennessee #appalachianlit #appalachianliterature #kentucky #northcarolina #virginia #westvirginia #kentuckypoetry https://www.instagram.com/p/B90WwU3pf2Q/?igshid=1ifjrd6nucisv

If you know what this is... Unbelievable. Good+ condition. . . . . . . #jessestuart #harvestofyouth #kentuckypoet #rarebooks #firstedition #bookcollection #bookcollecting #bookcollection #bibliophile #bookporn #bookhunting #bookstagram #modernfirsts #modernfirsteditions #finebooks #signedbooks #shelfie #southernliterature #southernlit #tennessee #appalachianlit #appalachianliterature #kentucky #northcarolina #virginia #westvirginia https://www.instagram.com/p/ByvO0ztHiB9/?igshid=d3fil7vhoutf

Another Kentuckian, whenever I see Stuart’s name I think of a comment he made about how to qualify home. He said (and I paraphrase) that ‘home is the place in your dreams where your mind can rest; the bedroom of your youth or the fields of your father, always seek to live in the place which brings you peace. This is the place of your homest home.’ He decided to stay in Kentucky and live on his family’s 5th generation farm and to write almost exclusively about Kentucky. He got translated into 60 languages, so something in the local connected with the global. This is a reprint, but I’ve not dug enough to find when the true first edition came out. I found this for rather cheap opened it to find a little photograph hidden in the back along with a lengthy inscription. Score! The inscriptions by Thomas Benton look strangely appropriate for ‘As I Lay Dying., Very Good jacket with a Fine book. Inscribed. . . . . . . . . . #kentucky #tapsforprivatetussie #stuart #jessestuart #appalachianliterature #firstedition #southernlit #southernliterature #southern #thomasbenton #thomasjeffersonaward #rarebooks #bookstagram #illustration #shelfie https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZw6fTgBai/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1iwe56fnq7bgf