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Title: The Complete Poetry of James Hearst
Condition: New
Author: James Hearst
Contributor: Scott Cawelti (Volume editor), Nancy Price (Foreword by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780877457572
ISBN: 9780877457572
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 30/06/2001
Description: Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called ""a poetry of place."" A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Weight: 333g
Release Year: 2001

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