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WHAT WE SAID is a collection of poems by Sue Chenette exploring her eyewitness experience of the War on Poverty in Appalachian communities in eastern Kentucky during the 1960s. Chenette was herself a case worker during this era in Knox County. It was a heady time during which programs such as VISTA, Head Start, Job Corps, and other community action programs designed to lift poverty-riddled areas into more stable financial and education circumstances. Chenette and many others moved into communities to help the War on Poverty succeed. Her poems include different voices, take various forms, and propel the reader into that specific time and place with striking imagery and clarity.

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"""Like a living breath blown on embers, truth blazes up in these pages out of a handful of leavings---personal memories, official documents, a case worker's notes, local voices, evocative detail, poems found and made---illuminating real people and the real, rather than the politically defined, causes of poverty."" --Eleanor Wilner ""Sue Chenette's book beautifully evokes a place and people's experiences in a time when hopes were high for the War on Poverty. It made me think about what might have been for the people she worked with. And for those like them in our time."" --Frank Stricker"

Like a living breath blown on embers, truth blazes up in these pages out of a handful of leavings---personal memories, official documents, a case worker's notes, local voices, evocative detail, poems found and made---illuminating real people and the real, rather than the politically defined, causes of poverty. --Eleanor Wilner Sue Chenette's book beautifully evokes a place and people's experiences in a time when hopes were high for the War on Poverty. It made me think about what might have been for the people she worked with. And for those like them in our time. --Frank Stricker

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