Dispatch from the Mountain State Michael Koresky and how out of light

and how out of light darkness is seen to shine

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Dispatch from the Mountain State Michael Koresky and how out of lightDispatch from the Mountain State encompasses the trademark themes of a mature poet death, despair, dread, and the seeming randomness with which all of these come into life. The dispatches provide, if sometimes obliquely, a keen awareness of the troubled times within which we live, whether the flashpoint be race, the recent pandemic, or the reckless onslaught of the Appalachian mining industry, which is masterfully addressed in the long poem, "The