Author: Sue Ikerd
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1944833293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marrying into a family of multi-generation farmers, this is a story that depicts the simple pleasures gleaned from learning to love the land and building a life centered around it. An America Farmer is a charming reflection that elicits warmth and emotion through poetry paired with lovely photography. Leading us on a journey that at times may be harrowing, full of sacrifice or toil, what emerges is a renewed sense of appreciation for our country’s heritage. Emerge yourself for a moment or two in this celebration of a life that was, is, and remains today uniquely American.
Author: Catherine Webster
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780877453260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poems of farm life are very much an American tradition and, despite our industrial heritage, in some ways they depict our national dream. Distinctly apart from the English pastoral motif, these hard-edged, reflective poems of the joys, tribulations, and realizations of rural life continue a tradition which began with Bradstreet and persisted through Whittier and Frost to the various and passionate poets included in this rich anthology. Here is contemporary poetry about the archetypal but ever-changing work of farming the American land. Catherine Marconi has included pieces from a wide variety of poets writing on the various landscapes of American farms: from the rocky New England fields through the deep topsoil of the heartland and the fecund tobacco, cotton, and vegetable lands of the South, from the hardscrabble cattle ranches of the Southwest to the verdant fields of the West. These poems, by some of our country's finest living poets, will be evocative and revealing to anyone who has ever lived or worked on a farm. Included in the volume are poems by, among others, Galway Kinnell, Gary Soto, Dennis Schmitz, Annie Dillard, Donald Hall, Ai, Tom McGrath, Gretel Ehrlich, William Stafford, Mary Swander, Gary Snyder, Larry Levis, Maxine Kumin, William Heyen, Hayden Carruth, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Stanley Kunitz.
Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-05
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 1458757404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wendell Baerry has become ''mad'' at contemporary society. Gleaned from various collections of this amazing American voice, the poems take the shape of manifestos, insults, and Whitmanic ravings that are often funny in spite of themselves. The whole is a wonderful testimony to the power of humor to bring even the most terrible consequences into an otherwise unobtainable focus.
Author: George Peabody College for Teachers
Publisher:
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Will Carleton
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-05
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As one can surmise from the title, this book is a collection of ballads inspired by life in the rural regions. More than two dozen titles are featured here, including 'Johnny Rich', 'Uncle Sammy', 'Our Army of the Dead', and 'Apples Growing'. Here's an excerpt from 'Johnny Rich': "Raise the light a little, Jim / For it's getting rather dim / And, with such a storm a-howlin', 'twill not do to douse the glim / Hustle down the curtains, Lu."