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Over This Soil: An Anthology of World Farm Poems
As a natural outgrowth from her anthology of contemporary American farm poems, Handspan of Red Earth, editor Catherine Webster has devoted herself over the past years to gathering this collection of farm poems from writers around the world. She has done her work with great energy, thoroughness, skill, and love. Over This Soil urges us to preserve our farmlands, to increase our responsibilities of land stewardship, and to intelligently maintain the agricultural necessities of our lives. It is an important agricultural and literary document for our planet at this time.
182 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1998
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November 4, 2007
a charming collection.
favorites include:
gabriela mistral's "fruit"
stanley kunitz's "my mother's pears"
and Martin Espada's exquisite "The RIght Hand of a Mexican Farmworker in Somerset County, Maryland":
"A rosary tattoo
between thumb
and forefinger
means that
every handful
of crops and dirt
is a prayer,
means that Christ
had hard hands
too"
favorites include:
gabriela mistral's "fruit"
stanley kunitz's "my mother's pears"
and Martin Espada's exquisite "The RIght Hand of a Mexican Farmworker in Somerset County, Maryland":
"A rosary tattoo
between thumb
and forefinger
means that
every handful
of crops and dirt
is a prayer,
means that Christ
had hard hands
too"
Displaying 1 of 1 review