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First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Contents |
I. Sharecroppers: A Human Condition / William Stafford -- When I Was Young / William Stafford -- Eclogues / Dennis Schmitz -- Freedom, New Hampshire / Galway Kinnell -- Farmer's Daughter / Annie Dillard -- The Farm on the Great Plains / William Stafford -- The Man Who Buys Hides / Dennis Schmitz -- The Sheep Child / James Dickey -- Maple Syrup / Donald Hall -- How to Make Rhubarb Wine / Ted Kooser -- The WIfe / Peggy Shumaker -- The Orchard / Gretel Ehrlich -- The Tenant Farmer / Ai -- The Country Midwife: A Day / Ai -- Young Farm Woman Alone / Ai -- Gretel / Tom Crawford -- Gretel (II) / Tom Crawford -- A Sheeprancher Named John / Gretel Ehrlich -- Picking Grapes in an Abandoned Vineyard / Larry Levis -- Getting the mail / Galway Kinnell -- From Letter to an Imaginary Friend / THomas McGrath -- II. Stretching Fence Wire: For the Hog Killing / Wendell Berry -- Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer / Wendell Berry -- Fence Wire / James Dickey -- Male Image / Ted Solotaroff -- The Snake / Wendell Berry -- Trees and Cattle / James Dickey -- In the Upper Pasture / Maxine Kumin -- In an Old Apple Orchard / Ted Kooser -- Field Theory / Robert Morgan -- Hubcaps / Robert Morgan -- Hay Scuttle / Robert Morgan -- Horses / Wendell Berry -- At Nightfall / Jane Hirshfield -- Some Ashes Drifting above Piedra, California / Larry Levis -- Landscape in Spring / Gary Soto -- A place in Kansas / Ted Kooser -- In the Corners of FIelds / Ted Kooser -- Nebraska, Early March / William Kloefkorn -- The mad Farmer Shuts Himself inside His Silo to Sing Away the Storm / William Kloefkorn -- Bows to Drough / Gary Snyder -- Discovery / William Stafford -- Grandfather / Tom Crawford -- The Bean Eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Vespers / Gary Short. III. Shanks, Sawgrass: Names of Horses / Donald Hall -- Near the Bravo 20 Bombing Range / Gary Short -- The Flying Change / Henry Taylor -- Blackberry Light / William Heyen -- Jim / Mary Swander -- Short Stry / Ellen Bryant Voight -- Barbed Wire / David Lee -- Blue Corn, Black Mesa / Peggy Shumaker -- The First Birth / Rodney Jones -- During the First Three Minutes of Life / Jim Heynen -- The Sow Piglet's Escapes / Galway Kinnell -- Cutting the Easter Colt / Paul Zarzyski -- The Vealers /Maxine Kumin -- Strut / Maxine Kumin -- Hay for the Horses / Gary Snyder -- The Horse / Faye Kicknosway -- Somewhere along the Way / Henry Taylor -- The Bull God / Joe Salerno --Uncle George / William Stafford -- For the Eating of Swine / Rodney Jones -- Saint Francis and the Sow / Galway Kinnell -- Earth Dweller / William Stafford -- Farmer / Lucien Stryk -- Barn Fire / Thomas Lux. IV. Open Furrows: Hard Red Wheat / Pal Zarzyski -- Emergency Haying / Hayden Carruth -- The Elements of San Joaquin / Gary Soto -- Hoeing / Gary Soto -- Field Poem / Gary Soto -- Plowing / David Lee -- The Drought / Gary Soto -- Mud / Maxine Kumin -- Roots / Lucille Clifton -- To Ms. Ann / Lucille Clifton -- I Once Knew a Man / Lucille Clifton -- Cornpicker Poem / Robert Bly -- Harvest / Gary Soto -- The Orchard Keeper / Robert Bly -- The Cherry / Lucien Stryk -- In the Farmhouse / Galway Kinnell -- Mood Indigo / William Matthews -- The Lonely One / Ronald Jumbo -- The Farm / David Lee -- Earth Closet / Robert Morgan -- These Obituaries of Rattlesnakes Being Eaten by the Hogs / Roger Weingarten -- The Broken Ground / Wendell Berry -- Ornament / Gary Short -- Passing an Orchard by Train / Robert Bly -- The Black Faced Sheep / Donald Hall -- The Tumbling of Worms / Stanley Kunitz -- End of Summer / Stanley Kunitz -- The Farmer / Ellen Bryant Voigt. |
| Subject |
Farm life -- Poetry.
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American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Farm life. (OCoLC)fst00921052
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Webster, Catherine, 1944- editor.
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| ISBN |
087745325X (alk. paper) |
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9780877453253 (alk. paper) |
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0877453268 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780877453260 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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