Inheriting The Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest
by Mark Vinz
contributions by Thom Tammaro
contributions by Thom Tammaro
University of Minnesota Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-8166-2303-7
Library of Congress Classification PS563.I54 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.80977
Paper: 978-0-8166-2303-7
Library of Congress Classification PS563.I54 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.80977
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Introduction
- Climates
- “Summer Cloudburst”
- Black, Candace
- “Three Kinds of Pleasures”
- Bly, Robert
- “One Hundred Percent Chance of Snow, Accumulating Six to Eight Inches by Morning”
- Citino, David
- “Eighty-four Days without Rain”
- Dana, Robert
- “Geraniums”
- Deal, Susan Strayer
- “June Walk”
- Friman, Alice
- “Rules for Winter”
- Hart, Joanne
- “Fishing with My Two Boys at a Spring-fed Pond in Kansas”
- Kloefkorn, William
- “In Late Spring”
- Kooser, Ted
- “Plowing”
- Lund, Orval
- “Too Long Away from Small Things”
- Pfingston, Roger
- “Finnish Women in the Summer Kitchen”
- Rixen, Gail
- “Canoeing—the Lakes”
- Roberts, George
- “Fishing with My Daughter in Miller's Meadow”
- Stryk, Lucien
- “Going West”
- Davis, Alan
- “The Undistinguished Poet” (from Staggerford)
- Hassler, Jon
- “Strand of Wire”
- O'Brien, Dan
- “Horizontal Grandeur”
- Holm, Bill
- “Grace”
- Schuler, Robert
- “The Midwest”
- Scott, Herbert
- “The Spirit of Place”
- Woiwode, Larry
- The Presence of the Past
- “Tornado”
- Dangel, Leo
- “Elwood Collins: Summer of 1932”
- Etter, Dave
- “Varna Snow”
- Flint, Roland
- “High School Boyfriend”
- Hasse, Margaret
- “Who Made Such Good Pies”
- Heynen, Jim
- “Sacrifice of a Gunnysack of Cats”
- Langland, Joseph
- “In Early Autumn”
- McGrath, Thomas
- “Hockey on the River”
- Moos, Michael
- “Migrant Mother, 1936”
- Ray, David
- “Midwest Sex Education—1965”
- Russell, CarolAnn
- “One Home”
- Stafford, William
- “Breaking Silence”
- Waterman, Cary
- “Star Quilt”
- Whiteman, Roberta Hill
- “Visiting the Graves—February' ”
- Zontelli, Patricia
- “Bloodsuckers”
- Dunning, Stephen
- “Gopher Hunting”
- Hudson, Lois Phillips
- “Free” (from Green Earth)
- Manfred, Frederick
- “Plainsong”
- Coffey, Marilyn
- “The Place of Your Dream”
- Evans, David Allan
- “Saturday-Night Radio”
- Glancy, Diane
- “Remember the Flowers”
- Gruchow, Paul
- Town and Country
- “Bandstand”
- Barnes, Jim
- “Death of a Hen”
- Chamberlain, Marisha
- “Rural Fantasia”
- Dacey, Philip
- “In Front of a Small Town Radio Station”
- Freisinger, Randall
- “A Drive in the Country”
- Hampl, Patricia
- “Airing Out”
- Hansen, Twyla
- “Elsie's Cafe in Aurelia Iowa”
- Hey, Phil
- “Lincoln Nebraska”
- Kuzma, Greg
- “The Water Tower Climbers”
- Meissner, William
- “Regent, North Dakota: Two Poems”
- Norris, Kathleen
- “Icehouse”
- Sutter, Barton
- “Closing the Cabin”
- Tammaro, Thom
- “Poet in Residence at a Country School”
- Welch, Don
- “Looking Up”
- Zimmer, Paul
- “The Tender Organizations”
- Bly, Carol
- “State Fair”
- Keillor, Garrison
- “Dear John Deere”
- Vinz, Mark
- “Corn Village”
- LeSueur, Meridel
- “The Other Houses in Eldon, Iowa”
- Martone, Michael
- “Living off the Land in Minnesota”
- Mohr, Howard
- “Cabin Fever”
- Toth, Susan Allen
- Gains and Losses
- “Ballade of the Dusty Old Dust”
- Block, Ron
- “The Old Farm Woman Examines Her Thoughts”
- Butcher, Grace
- “Mine Towns”
- Caddy, John
- “The Gleaning”
- Carter, Jared
- “Playing His Heart Out”
- Chmielarz, Sharon
- “Dear John Wayne”
- Erdrich, Louise
- “A Broad Gauge”
- Huesgen, Jan
- “lincoln tomb, a report”
- Knoepfle, John
- “Thoughts Stolen from Geese”
- Kort, Ellen
- “Crossing Lake Agassiz”
- Meek, Jay
- “Ideal”
- Muske, Carol
- “Picking Wildflowers in the Sandhills”
- Sornberger, Judith
- “Earthlings”
- Wheeler, Sylvia Griffith
- “Dark-House Spearing”
- Wojahn, David
- “What the Fall Brings”
- Agee, Jonis
- “A Simple Matter of Hunger”
- Warner, Sharon Oard
- “Dispersal”
- Weaver, Will
- “Birth”
- Hasselstrom, Linda
- “Beginning”
- O'Brien, Tim
- “The View from a Monastery”
- Tvedten O.S.B., Benet
- “July 1947: Many Point Scout Camp”
- Vizenor, Gerald
- Contributors
- Permissions
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