A fascinating compilation of largely previously published short stories, articles and poems about copperheads, blacksnakes, rattlers and other snakes of the Kentucky hill country, as encountered in either adoration, hatred or fear by Jesse Stuart, as a boy and a grown man, featuring:

DAWN OF REMEMBERED SPRING

OLD BEN

THE OLD ARE VALIANT

GRANPA BIRDWELL'S LAST BATTLE

YOKED FOR LIFE

LOVE

WORD AND THE FLESH

DISPUTING WARRIORS

TIME OF THE COTTONMOUTH WINDS

THE USURPER OF BEAUTY RIDGE

DEATH FOR TWO

THE BLACKSNAKE'S OPERATION

CONFRONTATION

OLD JACKSON WAS MY TEACHER

A THOUSAND YEARS IS A LONG TIME

DAWN

THE POET SPEAKS TO COLD-BLOODED SNAKE

THE POET SPEAKS TO LIVING THINGS

BULL BLACKSNAKE SPEAKS OF LOVE AND FEAR

COPPERHEAD SPEAKS

BULL BLACKSNAKE DEFENDS HIS RACE

MISS BLACKSNAKE SPEAKS

COPPERHEAD SPEAKS OF LOVE AND ENEMIES

BLACKSNAKE EAVESDROPS THE GRASS

BULL BLACKSNAKE SPEAKS OF FINAL VICTORY

FINALE OF THE WHISPERING GRASS

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