Books by R A Pace

In the Heart of the Mountains explores the changing of the seasons in the western part of North Carolina. While the author, R. A. Pace, lived in and around the Blue Ridge Parkway, she went on routine hikes into the wilderness of western North Carolina and crafted audacious poetry that breaks from convention while staying with the traditional subject matter of Robert Frost and the like. In the Heart of the Mountains is to be appreciated and enjoyed for its affection for our natural world.

R. A. Pace worked as a new journalist for nearly a decade while gathering the material for Mountain Cove Forest: Or, the Commander. All the same, the enclosed literary work tells the ancient story of heaven and hell, drawing from the poetry of John Milton while keeping with the literary styles of Samuel Beckett and Ernest Hemingway. To be appreciated intellectually, Mountain Cove Forest is also a stab at the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, hopefully exciting the reader to think critically, even when challenged to not do so.