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Download or read book Loving Mountains, Loving Men written by Jeff Mann and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving personal narrative with poetry, Mann describes his life as an openly gay man in Appalachia, a place of great physical beauty and of religious intolerance and homophobia. He reconciles his homosexuality with both traditional definitions of Appalachian manhood and his own attachment to home and kin. Mann is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).