The Mad Farmer s Wife is a response to a life lived on a mountain cattle farm in Southwest Virginia and also to a poetic persona created by noted Kentucky poet and essayist Wendell Berry over thirty years ago: the Mad Farmer. In a world increasingly detached from the land that supplies our all our essential resources, The Mad Farmer s Wife tries to help us understand the complexity and challenge of living that life in today s economy and the dark life and death struggles that are a routine part of farm living. Prayer of the Mad Farmer s Wife May the weeds grow...
The Mad Farmer s Wife is a response to a life lived on a mountain cattle farm in Southwest Virginia and also to a poetic persona created by not...
Fred Chappell, Jeff Daniel Marion, Jim Wayne Miller, and Robert Morgan are primarily folk artists who write poetry about people doing common, everyday tasks. All natives to the Appalachian region, these poets come from an agrarian community that they had to leave behind to enter the world of academia. Looking For Native Ground compares Chappell, Marion, Miller, and Morgan.
Fred Chappell, Jeff Daniel Marion, Jim Wayne Miller, and Robert Morgan are primarily folk artists who write poetry about people doing common, everyday...
