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Over this soil: an anthology of world farm poems
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Publication Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Foreword / James Galvin
My Mother's Pears / Stanley Kunitz
Fruit / Gabriela Mistral
What If the World Stays Always Far Off / Linda Gregg
The Pitchfork / Seamus Heaney
The Bull-Roarer / Gerald Stern
Tractor / Ted Hughes
De Profundis / Georg Trakl
Swineherd / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
The Lithuanian Well / Johannes Bobrowski
Someone Else's Sugarcane / Joao Cabral de Melo Neto
A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree / Jonathan Kariara
Heavier / Pierre Reverdy
Wo/men / Chiqui Vicioso
Aunt Julia / Norman MacCaig
Waterpot / Grace Nichols
The Earthworm / Harry Edmund Martinson
Probably the Farmer / Laura Jensen
Farmers / Kathleen Peirce
The Broken Ground / Wendell Berry
Between Each Song / A.R. Ammons
Hunger / Kim Chi Ha
The Right Hand of a Mexican Farmworker in Somerset County Maryland / Martin Espada
The Onion / Wislawa Szymborska
The United Fruit Co / Pablo Neruda
Hoeing / Gary Soto
Farm Labourer / George Mackay Brown
Cattle / Kijima Hajime
Sugar Cane / Faustin Charles
The Sugar Slave / Thylias Moss
Summer / Binyo Ivanov
They Plow / Giovanni Pascoli
Farmer / Jack Myers
Pears / Mary Swander
West Texas / Langston Hughes
Ploughman / John Tripp
Muddy Road to Adam Johnson's House / John Burnside
Winter Journey / Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn
The Old Vineyard / Leonardo Sinisgalli
A Pair of Shoes by the Field's Edge / Wang Xiani
At a Potato Digging / Seamus Heaney
Faces at the First Farmworkers' Constitutional Convention / Jose Montoya
The Hill Farmer Speaks / R.S. Thomas
Legacy / Marton Kalasz
Conversation at Midnight / Adelina Adalis
Red Beard / Nuala Archer
In a Fallow Field in the North Is a Plow That Hurts Me / Duo Duo
Depths of Fields / Luis Cabalquinto
The Spring / P.J. Kavanagh
Downstream / Linda Hussa
July 2nd, 1916 / Phoebe Hesketh
R.F.D. Mailbox / S.A. Walsh
Fat of the Land, Georgiana / Valoyce-Sanchez
In Peru, the Quechans Have a Thousand Words for Potato / Ray Gonzalez
Stomping the Beaver Palace / Roger Weingarten
Quail and His Role in Agriculture / Ray A. Young Bear
Sprout / Rumiko Kora
The Dead Calf / Richard Jones
Pastoral / Ronald Wallace
November Calf / Jane Kenyon
Baobab Fruit Picking (or Development in Monkey Bay) / Jack Mapanje
The Woodcut on the Cover of Robert Frost's Complete Poems / Hayden Carruth
Afraid of the Countryside / Sakutaro Hagiwara
And You, Vanya ... / Yury Odarchenko
Pastoral / Annie Dillard
The Funeral / Norman Dubie
The Removal of Our Village, KwaBhanya / Mbuyiseni Mtshali
Mississippi Mysteries, Continued / Al Young
The Planting of the Blue Corn / Edgar Gabriel Silex
The Green Combine / Janet Kauffman
Platt River Holdout / Katy Peake
Once We Were Farmers / Elsa Rediva E'der
Everything Else You Can Get You Take / Robert Dana
The Cucumber / Nazim Hikmet
Green Fields / W.S. Merwin
Cabbages at Night / Hasegawa Ryusei
The Hen / Marvin Bell
The Memory / Maya Angelou
Some Grass along a Ditch Bank / Larry Levis
The Quality of Sprawl / Les Murray
Agriculture / James Galvin
Carbuncle / Muriel Zeller
Buck / Paul Zarzyski
Horse-doctor / Katherine Pierpoint
Egg and Daughter Night, April 1951 / William Matthews
Appetite / Maxine Kumin
Untitled / Tomaz Salamun
The Bogie-Wife / Kathleen Jamie
The Barn-yard / Sheila Cussons
Flirting with a Pig / Aleksandar Ristovic
A Land of Drought / Maxamed Cabdille Xasan
The Bitch / Sergey Yesenin
A Young Land Cultivation Department Technician's Recitative on Irises / Kenji Miyazawa
The Biting Insects / Galway Kinnell
Washing the Grain / Yasmine Gooneratne
Farm Wife / Ellen Bryant Voigt
Bread and Wine / Nina Cassian
delta farm / Dennis Schmitz
Reading in Place / Mark Strand
In the Pasture / Jorie Graham
The Simple Truth / Philip Levine.
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