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books:

Idol and Sanctuary
Victor M. Depta

Univ Editions, 1994

The Simultaneous Mountain: Essays on Mysticism and Poetry
Victor M. Depta

Blair Mountain Press, 2005

Mysticism from a monistic, atheistic and materialistic point of view, focusing on the existential value of individual consciousness, including a mystical interpretation of several poets.

The Helen Poems
Victor Depta

Ion Books, 1994

Poems about a father, a single parent, and his experiences of raising a daughter.

The creek
Victor Depta

Ohio University Press, 1973

The Little Henry Poems
Victor Depta

Blair Mountain Press, 2005

A grandfather, who lives far away from his grandson and who sees him only a few times a year, records his joy and sorrow.

A West Virginia Trilogy

1 review
Victor Depta

Blair Mountain Press, 2003

Unexpected pleasure
West Virginia Trilogy is truly a remarkable and unexpected surprise. A clerk at a bookstore in West Virginia recommended it to me when I was traveling through there last year. It consists of three novellas, all centering on the aging of the main character, Keith. The other main character is West Virginia - a place so vividly portrayed that it becomes a character itself - much like Ashville in ...

Plays from Blair Mountain : Four Comedies
Victor Depta

Blair Mountain Press, 2000

It's rare to find West Virginia treated with such a combination of humor, environmental awareness, and acute human insight. Those tired, hillbilly stereotypes--the dumb young thing, the retarded youth, the incestuous kin--are yanked out of their literary doldrums, set on stage and made fresh, vivid, startlingly satirical yet individually real. And incidentally, the mature woman, the aging woman, is given the respect she deserves, though with a ...

and Clouds: Four Comedies
Victor Depta

Blair Mountain Press, 2003

The mountain people in these four comedies find suitcases stuffed with money, men with blue faces and gray faces, a stupendous welfare case, and ghosts in the moonlight.

A Doorkeeper in the House
Victor Depta

Ion Books, 1993

A book of poems in which a genteel, mountain family in western Virginia express their spiritual and personal dillemas.

The Gate of Paradise
Victor Depta

Blair Mountain Pr, 2000

If you were to mix the hillbilly stereotypes of incest with the Southern grotesque, add fundamentalist Christianity, some existential meaninglessness, the pathos and pity for unloved children, the heights and depths of the profound and the hilarious, and a prose style on the level of poetry, then you would have a recipe for a novel like this one.

An Afterthought of Light

1 review
Victor Depta

Blair Mountain Press, 2007

These deftly crafted free verse lyrics also contemplate the spiritual meanings
The inevitable infirmities of aging and death are difficult for most people to consider and only then in moments of crisis. "An Afterthought Of Light" is a compelling and very highly recommended collection of superbly crafted poems by Victor M. Depta that address the 'fear, sorrow and helplessness' that infirmity and death inject into daily life. These deftly crafted free verse lyrics also ...

House
Victor Depta

New Rivers Pr, 1978

Poems about a failing marriage, the birth of a child and parenting.

The Silence of Blackberries

1 review
Victor Depta

Blair Mountain Pr, 1999

Mediocre at best...
After reading The Silence of Blackberries, I couldn't help but feel mostly let down by this compilation of his "works". What bothers me most is that there are several poems in this book that remind me of other works that I've read from more established authors. Does anyone else notice this? Interpret that as you will, but this only goes to show how Depta is most likely a self-published only ...

Azrael on the Mountain

1 review
Victor Depta

Blair Mountain Press, 2002

Captures
Victor Depta is the first person since Lee Maynard(author of Crum)to truly capture the images of rural West Virginia. "Azrael on the Mountain" is a collection of poems that one cannot put down. One will keep reading to see what he will say next. Some may find him offensive, but others, like me, find him as a realist.

Preparing a Room

1 review
Victor Depta

Blair Mountain Press, 2001

Poetry should touch the soul.
Poetry should touch the soul. That is often forgotten in academic reverie. So much work is put into looking at how words are strewn together and technique, sometimes the passion is forgotten. For me, it must have more than just beautiful form; otherwise it is beautiful but cold and un-alive. Depta has found a way through sensual language to craft an intriguing story through a poetic series. ...

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