Over This Soil: An Anthology of World Farm Poems
edited by Catherine Webster
foreword by James Galvin
University of Iowa Press, 1998
Cloth: 978-0-87745-616-2 | Paper: 978-0-87745-617-9
Library of Congress Classification PN6110.F34O84 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.819355
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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