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Farming Dreams

Farming Dreams

Sorensen, Knud
Goldman, Michael

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1944682643
ISBN13: 9781944682644
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Published: Jun 1 2016
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this book of translated Danish poetry, farming is not used as a background for personal drama but as the speaker's central subject. The poet succeeds in defining his central task as the vivid evocation of the repeated seasonal chores that make up the essence of farming life. Never sentimental, and often humorous, the book might be called an earthy celebration of essential ritual; but it is an elegy as well, for the poems also chronicle the pressures that lead to collapse of farming as a vocation, describing the slow shift of a vital farming village into a bedroom community for those who work elsewhere. How the poet manages to maintain his dream about farming as a living possibility, to make it part of a stable vision of the possible, without flinching from sober facts and figures, is one of its many impressive achievements.
Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of twelve books of poetry including Practical Gods and Another Reason

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