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Black Earth And Ivory Tower: New American Essays From Farm And Classroom
Zachary M. Jack
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Description for Black Earth And Ivory Tower: New American Essays From Farm And Classroom
Hardcover. Zachary M. Jack has assembled writers on the present rural experience to provide 21st-century insights about life lived close to the land; which show the US at the same crossroad as it has since its founding: the intersection of Thomas Jefferson's agrarian republic and Alexander Hamilton's capitalistic democracy. 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 27. Weight in Grams: 581.
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
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Univ of South Carolina Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570035883
SKU
V9781570035883
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About Zachary M. 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