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J Hardy Carroll is an award-winning cartoonist, poet and novelist currently living in Iowa

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You heard in the valley us coal miners is hard people? You don’t know the half of it. Before the union come to Mingo, the company sent up a bunch of hooligans from Baldwin-Felts, rough men toting guns and blackjacks. They aimed to keep out the union. See, they wanted to leave the coal price…

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message 2: by Jim

Nov 03, 2016 07:24AM

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Keely goes into the difference between writing (he is writing up some stuff, which I have read as well) and analysis.

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message 1: by Jim

Nov 03, 2016 07:15AM

Keely is an excellent critic here on Goodreads. Your reviews are excellent to read too, also, "an education", like Keely's reviews.
Keely feels like he's in his 30's. He is also writing books.

Josh, if that is your poetry you are publishing on FB, its excellent.

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