With insights into Japanese flower gardening and hog butchering, into mother-daughter relations and horse trading, in verse that is wistful or bright or drenched in rural beauty, this book surprises and delights...This varied collection of remarkably high poetic quality will enchant readers throughout the English-speaking world. The book will appeal to readers young and old, to students and gardeners, to political activists, to anyone who responds to natural beauty and to truth. West Virginia Poet Laureate Irene McKinney ...
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With insights into Japanese flower gardening and hog butchering, into mother-daughter relations and horse trading, in verse that is wistful or bright or drenched in rural beauty, this book surprises and delights...This varied collection of remarkably high poetic quality will enchant readers throughout the English-speaking world. The book will appeal to readers young and old, to students and gardeners, to political activists, to anyone who responds to natural beauty and to truth. West Virginia Poet Laureate Irene McKinney has said that poetry is the one form of art which can't sell out. This book doesn't either.
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Ex-library with typical library markings/labels. In very good, unmarked condition. Your purchase benefits world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book SIGNED and INSCRIBED by one of the poets, Christine Lamb Parker, on title page, dated March, 2007. Royal octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine brown and orange pictorial dj. 418pp. A landmark in West Virginia's literary history and a model of poetic celebration for both lay readers and academics.
