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Inheriting The Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest

by Mark Vinz
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

TOC

  • 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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