| Description |
xxviii, 452 pages ; 24 cm |
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"Letter II from an American farmer" / Jean de Crevecoeur -- Eight short prose pieces / Jim Heymen -- "In double harness" / Patricia Penton Leimbach -- "Haying, a horse, and a hired man" / Donald Hall -- Ten poems from Old man Brunner country / Leo Dangel -- "Windbreak : a woman rancher on the Northern Plains" / Linda Hasselstrom -- "Life on a hill" / Maxine Kumin -- "Harvest" / Meridel LeSueur -- Eight poems from Alvin Turner as farmer / William Kloefkorn -- "Birth" / Richard Dokey -- "Making hay" / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- "The farmerless farm" / Mark Kramer -- "Low technology in the sugarbush" / Noel Perrin -- "The boundary" / Wendell Berry -- From Friendship Village / Zona Gale -- "Adventure" / Sherwood Anderson -- "Home" / Garrison Keillor -- Twelve poems from Alliance, Illinois / Dave Etter -- "Lizzie, Annie and Rosie's rescue of me with blue cake" / Carolyn Chute -- "In the heart of the heart of the country" / William Gass -- "Letter from the Lost Swede Towns" / Carol Bly -- "Widow water" / Frederick Busch -- "The rookers" / Bobbie Ann Mason -- "The music of failure : variations on an idea" / Bill Holm. |
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"Solitude" / Henry Thoreau -- "Thirty-seven days of peril" / Truman C. Everts -- "The streams" / Ann Zwinger -- "Winter" / Paul Gruchow -- "Seeing" / Annie Dillard -- "Water" / Edward Abbey -- "Lookout's journal" / Gary Snyder -- "Marsh family" / Christopher Hallowell -- "Seven songs of modern Montana" / Greg Keeler -- "Buffalo" / Barry Holstun Lopez -- "Meditations on a small lake" / Norbert Blei -- "Wilderness letter" / Wallace Stegner. |
| Subject |
Country life -- United States -- Literary collections.
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Wilderness areas -- United States -- Literary collections.
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American literature.
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| Added Author |
Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989.
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Pichaske, David R.
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| ISBN |
0765197359 |
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