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The author reminds readers that the season of brown twigs and icy gales is just as much a part of the year as the time when the tulips open and tomatoes thrive. He keeps track of snow falling, birds flocking, soups simmering, garden catalogues arriving, buds swelling and seed trays coming to life.

The chipped stone projectile points that Native Americans fastened to the ends of their spears, darts and arrow shafts are the most common relics of the 12,000-year occupancy of the Upper Mississippi River Valley. This guide offers a detailed key to identifying the various styles of points.

This poetry is about the people and events that pass through a life, leaving a void; about finding a presence in that absence, and waking up to the realities of the moment. It is concerned with discovery and confrontation, and uncovering and witnessing.

Persecuted by Protestants and Catholics alike throughout history and largely misunderstood by the rest of the world, Mennonites have found it difficult to make their voices heard or respected. In this anthology however, 24 poets challenge our assumptions and confront issues from identity to God.

This anthology of poems, by 50 contemporary American poets, cuts to the heart of our theological and spiritual underpinnings. From deathbed spirituals to initiation songs and transformative ballads, they help us realize we are not alone.

Reprinted in this work are the most important adulatory and critical first-hand accounts by many major and minor literary figures in Britain and the United States as well as by Emerson's children. Each entry is prefaced by an essay that provides contextual and historical information.

In this collection, 65 nurses from places as diverse as California and Alaska, South America and Europe, tell us in tough, revealing poems and prose what it's like to be on the front lines of health care.

Each of the 75 black-and-white images featured in this book captures the glory and demise of one of rural America's most enduring icons. From square to round, wood to brick, Dutch to Swedish, the barns documented here are a testament to a passing way of life in Iowa and the Midwest.

Robyn Schiff's poems enquire about making, buying, selling and stealing in the material world, the natural landscape and the human soul. Schiff moves from Cartier and Tiffany to the Shedd Aquarium, from Marie Antoinette to the Civil War and from Mary Pickford to Marilyn Monroe.

Like the ancient medical text by Hippocrates that gives this collection of poetry its title, ""Airs, Waters, Places"" looks with intensity and purpose at the elemental world to understand the possibility of an expanded notion of health in an often disconnected and disconnecting social order.

Covering a variety of subjects - from the plague and the first ""danse macabre"" to the development of perspective and recipes for pigments - the poems in this collection are set in 15th-century France. They explore the end of the mediaeval world and its transition into the Renaissance.

James Hearst helped to create what an Iowa novelist called ""a poetry of place"". A lifelong Iowa farmer, Hearst began to write poetry at 19 and eventually wrote 13 books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas and essays. Here is the distinct voice of rural life, with all its joys and conflicts.

Forged from the basic elements of sport - energy, movement and rhythm - the poems in this anthology reflect something universal; sport as metaphor, sport as a struggle, and sport as the battleground for mythic figures and local heroes.

These poems rush the reader into the urgency of feelings - lovelorn, bawdy, grieving, pleading - but, never self-pitying. Each poem turns upon and returns to the infuriating and glorious correlations between love and art (learning to love, trying to make beauty or art, trying to be a beauty).

For over 50 years Birkby has written a weekly column for her hometown paper containing recipes, stories of friends and family, and her personal philosophy of life. This volume contains the best of these recipes and stories from the 1940s and 1950s.

This volume contains interviews with and recollections of Walt Whitman from his early days as a school teacher to the moment of his death. The selections demonstrate a wide range of attitudes towards the poet. Myerson's introduction places these accounts within the context of the time.

A collection of short stories about men on the edge. From the streets of Chicago's southwest side to the rural roads of Nebraska to the small towns of southern Illinois, these men tread a very fine line between right and wrong, love and hate, humour and horror.

This is a collection of short stories about silence and the complications thar arise when a silence is kept too long or suddenly broken. Subjects addressed include the loss of innocence, sexual betrayal, and the helplessness of parents before their children.

Frank P. Donovan was one of the first writers to provide a complete exploration of the major steam railways that served Iowa. This collection of Donovan's essays describes the history of the state railroad systems and the companies who ran them.

Following a brief historical background, this book provides a chronological series of perspectives and observations on the evolving nature of Czech theatre production during the 20th century, in relation to their similarly evolving social and political contexts.

This text contains seven short stories by Carrie Young.

This history of Ottumwa's meatpacking workers provides insights into the development of several forms of labour relations in Iowa during the Democratic party's ascendancy across much of industrial North America following World War II.

Early in the 20th century, Hohannes Gillhoff created the composite character of Juernjakob Swehn: the archetype of the upright, honest mensch who personified the German immigrant, on his way to a better life through ambition and hard work. This is an English translation of that book.

This text's three sections mingle myth and history with style, grace and humour. The first essays are given over to memories of Paul Engle in his heyday. The second group focuses on the teachers who made the workshop hum on a daily basis, and the third section is devoted to storytelling.

The poems in this book explore the intersection of writing with the visual arts, particularly late medieval and early Reniassance paintings. They also explore writing as a visual vehicle, both as a pattern across a field and as a catalyst for imagery.

Here, for the first time, is a feast for anyone who has ever been beguiled by the trains that formerly thrummed through the landscapes of our lives. This entertaining and evocative anthology presents the amazing variety of poems and songs written about the American railroad in the last century and a half. Comprised of selections from both oral and written traditions, the volume celebrates the historical and cultural significance of this marvel of engineering skills. Hedin's anthology allows all readers, from the most avid railroad buff to anyone who has fond memories of train travel, to enjoy the romance of trains.

What connections can be drawn between oral history and the shopping mall? Gospel music and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant? William Carlos Williams's Paterson and the Manhattan Project's secret cities? The answers lie in this insightful collection of essays that read and illuminate the American landscape. Through literature and folklore, music and oral history, autobiography, architecture, and photography, eleven leading writers and thinkers explore the dialectic between space and place in modern American life. The result is an eloquent and provocative reminder of the environmental context of events - the deceptively simple fact that events "take place".