Poems by Edwina Pendarvis

Moving back and forth from the mountains and culture of China and of Appalachia, Eddy Pendarvis's Like The Mountains of China creates a world of many rooms, though of one humanity. The inhabitants are varied, too, including Amelia Earhart, Li Po, Einstein, Harlan County miners, Mohammed Ali and the famously doomed Floyd Collins. Here are wide-ranging poems that include here and there, past and present, in a reflective, sometimes ironic voice,  always thoughtful.
Richard Hague, author of Possible Debris
(Cleveland State University, 1988)

In her latest book, Like the Mountains of China, Pendarvis (a "pure product" of Appalachia) employs regional sensibilities as a lens through which she views other places, other times. And she does so with an eye for the memorable image, an ear that is careful and subtle, and an excellent instinct for pacing and crafting a line.  In a thoughtful fusion of cultural icons, she presents us with disparate contemporary and historical figures transformed or transfigured by their confrontations with astonishment, adversity, or the approach of their own mortality.
Philip St. Clair, author of Acid Creek (Bottom Dog Press, 1997)