Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces by Jo Carson

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A collection of "overheard" stories from the Appalachians, designed for reading and/or performing. Taken from everyday life in her native region, these monologues and dialogues by playwright and poet, Jo Carson, could be useful as audition pieces.

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"Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unflinching honesty." Publishers WeeklyPlaywright and poet Jo Carson has long been mining the rich field of everyday life in her native Appalachia region and East Tennessee. Collecting found stories as part of her ongoing "People Pieces" series, she has created a remarkable distillation of the rhythms and nuances of a specific landscape that proves common to us all. These fifty-four monologues and dialogues are statements of life from the region of the heart."The pieces all come from people. I never sat my desk and made them up. I heard the heart of each of them somewhere. A grocery store line. A beauty shop. The emergency room. A neighbor across her clothesline to another neighbor. I am an eavesdropper and I practiced being invisible to get them." Jo Carson, from the Preface.JO CARSON is an author of poems, plays, short stories and essays who lives and works in Johnson City, Tennessee. She has toured internationally with Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet and her play, Daytrips, has been widely produced. Ms. Carson has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

Author Biography

Jo Carson has published award-winning plays, short stories, books for children, essays, poems and other work. Her play "Whispering to Horses" and solo show "If God Came Down..." premiered at Seven Stages in Atlanta. She currently performs "Liars, Thieves, and Other Sinners on the Bench", made up of selected stories from the 30 oral history plays she has written.

Review

'Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unflinching honesty' * Publishers Weekly *

Kirkus US Review

Forty-nine poems derived from conversations in Appalachian Tennessee, most of which are mildly humorous, upbeat, and quaint - for instance, in a monologue a man explains that the splintery furniture his mother used to hate is now prized by his wife as antique, and there's a conversation between a confused old Grandma and her grandchild that ends with Grandma's exasperated query, "Who do I know that ain't already dead?" In a preface, Carson admits that these poems are distillations of conversations she's overheard - and although more is required from poetry than this, the disclaimer does distinguish the pieces from mere reportage. The more serious selections are better, but their subjects may not be appropriate to a young audience: one is a graphic description of the progressive stages of wife-beating. Still, while falling between genres and not the best poetry, these do capture dialogue well. (Kirkus Reviews)

Long Description

"Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unflinching honesty." - Publishers Weekly Playwright and poet Jo Carson has long been mining the rich field of everyday life in her native Appalachia region and East Tennessee. Collecting found stories as part of her ongoing "People Pieces" series, she has created a remarkable distillation of the rhythms and nuances of a specific landscape that proves common to us all. These fifty-four monologues and dialogues are statements of life from the region of the heart. "The pieces all come from people. I never sat my desk and made them up. I heard the heart of each of them somewhere. A grocery store line. A beauty shop. The emergency room. A neighbor across her clothesline to another neighbor. I am an eavesdropper and I practiced being invisible to get them." - Jo Carson, from the Preface. JO CARSON is an author of poems, plays, short stories and essays who lives and works in Johnson City, Tennessee. She has toured internationally with Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet and her play, Daytrips , has been widely produced. Ms. Carson has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

Review Quote

'Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unflinching honesty'

Details ISBN1559360275 Author Jo Carson Short Title STORIES I AINT TOLD NOBODY YET Edition Description Tcg Language English ISBN-10 1559360275 ISBN-13 9781559360272 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Year 1993 Birth 1946 Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Subtitle Selections from the People Pieces DOI 10.1604/9781559360272 NZ Release Date 1993-01-21 US Release Date 1993-01-21 UK Release Date 1993-01-21 Pages 95 Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Publication Date 1993-01-21 Audience General AU Release Date 1993-01-03 We've got this

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