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Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom
Zachary Michael Jack
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Description for Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom
Paperback. Underscores the diversity of the American farm and its importance as a wellspring of learning. These commentaries on modern farming, the simple life movement, and the discontents of modern civilization attest to the endurance of agrarian values and provide a literate record of shifting national priorities. Num Pages: 320 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
Heralding the seventy-fifth anniversary of the influential agrarian anthology ""I'll Take My Stand"", Zachary M. Jack has assembled North America's foremost contemporary writers on the present rural experience to provide their own twenty-first-century insights about life lived close to the land. In the grand tradition of farmer-writers Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, and Andrew Lytle, ""Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom"" gathers the wisdoms of contributors including Victor David Hanson, Michael Martone, Linda Hasselstrom, John Hildebrand, and others. At a time when just two percent of the American population counts itself as farmers, these ... Read more
Heralding the seventy-fifth anniversary of the influential agrarian anthology ""I'll Take My Stand"", Zachary M. Jack has assembled North America's foremost contemporary writers on the present rural experience to provide their own twenty-first-century insights about life lived close to the land. In the grand tradition of farmer-writers Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, and Andrew Lytle, ""Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom"" gathers the wisdoms of contributors including Victor David Hanson, Michael Martone, Linda Hasselstrom, John Hildebrand, and others. At a time when just two percent of the American population counts itself as farmers, these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570036118
SKU
V9781570036118
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About Zachary Michael Jack
(Oswego, IL & Lost Nation, IA) assistant professor of English at North Central College in Naperville, IL. Recipient of the Prentice Hall Prize for Poetry and the founding director of the Iowa School of Lost Arts. Former writer in residence at New York's Blue Mountain Center, Mexico's Great River Arts Institute, and Ireland's Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
Reviews for Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom
At its heart, this book is for the students and teachers among us, formal and informal, certifiable and apocryphal. It's for the ag-dedicated high schooler about to walk the stage and move on to Iowa State, Michigan State, or Tennessee Tech as much as it is for the ag-inspired teacher about to graduate into the practical and applied world beyond ... Read more