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Witness Of Combines
When Kent Meyerss father died of a stroke, there was corn to plant, cattle to feed, and a farm to maintain. In a fresh and vibrant voice, Meyers recounts the wake of his fathers death and reflects on families, farms, and rural life in the Midwest.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; The Witness of Combines; Windbreak; Straightening the Hammermill; Chickens; My Mother's Silence; The Conversation of the Roses; My Grandmother's Bones; Old Waters; Rafting; Rocks, Roots, and Weeds; How Joel and I Almost Became Mountain Men; Night Grove; Dragline; The Eye, Taken to Eternity; Working; Slow Flies; Frozen Silage; Stuck; A Constellation of Cockleburs; Black Snow; Birds Against the Glass; The Night Trucks; Selling the Parts; Going Back.