Set against the bleak backdrop of the Yukon and the historical moment of the 1897 Klondike gold rush, this chronologically arranged series of sonnets is grounded in the lived experience of Finnish imm
The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a small ranch, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-ge
"This is one of the most remarkable studies of Whitman that I've seen in many a year...penetrating and original."--Jerome Loving, author of Walt Whitman: the Song of Himself and The Last Titan: A Life
The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its futureis in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he hasraised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generat
A powerful and important work of investigative journalism that explores the runaway growth of the American meatpacking industry and its dangerous consequences.On the production line in American packin
An acclaimed journalist uses the story of Hormel Foods and soaring recession-era demand for its most famous product, Spam, to probe the state of the meatpacking industry, including the expansion of ag
In the Spanish-speaking world, Miguel Hern?ndez is regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century-equal in distinction to Federico Garc!a Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. H
Unlike many of the protest poets of the Depression era, Joseph Kalar lived the workingman's life he wrote about. Though he produced some of the finest social protest writing of his era, the circumstan
This volume, the first to span the forty-year career of Nebraska state poet William Kloefkorn, brings together the best-known and most beloved poems by one of the most important Midwestern poets of t
