Add to ORKGThe University of Nebraska Press has given us a gift by republishing Harriette Simpson Arnow\u27s Flowering ofthe Cumberland. Though much has changed in the fields of history writing and literary non-fiction in the intervening decades, rereading Arnow reminds us that good prose is always in style and that good stories never die. Juanita Brown Tobin\u27s Ransom Street Quartet is a half-successful book of poems. And since the other half is less a failure than a curiosity, the whole is worth reading. Fortunately the book leads with its strength. In Johnny\u27s Cosmology, North Carolina poet John York presents his own engaging angle of the Appalachian vision—an angle that continually modifies and changes its focus as the book progresses. That h...