Sign-In
Cart
At Quarry Farm
Paperback
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 1639807543
ISBN13: 9781639807543
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jun 3 2025
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781639807543
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jun 3 2025
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
James Plath's At Quarry Farm is a finely-tuned collection that reverberates with the purest chords of Mark Twain as man, writer, husband, and father. These exquisitely-rendered and often precise poems are a celebration of Twain in his most distilled and life-affirming element: working on his finest novels, during joy-filled summers, among the family he deeply loved, and lost, one by one, except a single surviving daughter. Plath poignantly notes the courage it took for Twain to go on after such loss, and to twist from his sorrow pure creation. Through his own depth of empathy for Twain, James Plath has done the same.
-Lorian Hemingway, author, Walking into the River and Walk on Water: A Memoir
Sam Clemens would be pleased by this book, to have drawn the poet from the scatteration of the 21st to the delicacy of the 19th, the writer at work on Huck Finn in a cloud of smoke, the hikes with his girls, the barn cats and billiards and Regulator clock and Livy on the porch. Life is play, meant to be lived, was then and is now.
-Garrison Keillor, author, Lake Wobegon Days and editor, Good Poems
-Dr. Joseph Lemak, director, Center for Mark Twain Studies
Also from
Plath, James
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
$33.00
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
$19.94
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Lao Tzu
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Paperback
$18.00
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
$18.05
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover
$24.70