Corrie Lynn White’s debut collection stays faithful to the idea that holiness can be found in any earthly place. I love this book for reminding me that, whether we notice or not, the world invites our wildness, fatigue, heartbreak, and desire. Gold Hill Family Audio is as local and universal as a book of poems can be. —David Roderick, author of The Americans
In Gold Hill Family Audio, Corrie Lynn White gives us the FM on her inheritance out of Gold Hill, North Carolina—the grandmothers and hogs and the China Wok, the State Fair, the closed shops, the dried creek—and with it all, the answer to Muriel Rukeyser’s famous question: “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” Rukeyser says the world would split open. White says, sure, but the woman? Let’s find out. —Rebecca Gayle Howell, author of American Purgatory
The poems in Corrie Lynn White’s Gold Hill Family Audio have all the intimacy and urgency of prayers – prayers for a deeper connection to place, to family, to our very selves. They celebrate and they mourn, oftentimes in the very same line. This is a poet who understands that what we love can be both blessing and burden. These are the kinds of poems that reach into your life and change you. —Austin Smith, author of Flyover Country
It is hard not to fall in love with the sensual, contemplative, sharp-eyed and often playful voice of Corrie Lynn White in her gutsy debut as she traverses the landscape of her personal history—its “uneven ground” and its badass set of matriarchs—looking to chart her own “narrow road” toward a complete and fulfilling life. Where must we go? And, who with? It is the anxieties of this poet’s very human search that ring most true. And, as a woman, I have rarely felt so seen by a book. —Lauren Goodwin Slaughter, author of Spectacle
