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Hardscrabble: Life on the Land
Paperback
General Construction & RenovationGeneral NatureGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $21.95
ISBN13: 9781733798792
Publisher: Cave Moon Press
Published: Mar 29 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twenty-five years of Wes Hanson's nature paintings and pensive poetry adorn my Inland Northwest Land Conservancy office. His Hardscrabble: Life on the Land will join them soon. In 1997 Wes and his wife Gertie enlisted my organization to safeguard their family's land, the Carder Farm, and I have walked it many times since. This collection of thoughtful, restful, spare poetry is exactly like walking with Wes. It's a memoir, a paean to the farm, a slow walk through a wildlife haven and Wes's life. Reading the poems, I focused on nearby things like the hot fumes of the old Ford tractor and far off soaring hawks. Being in my own autumn, Wes's observation that yellow leaves fall. . . in slow subtraction led me gently to one of his final poems, Last Morning.
Chris DeForest is Senior Conservationist for Inland Northwest Land
Conservancy.
Hardscrabble: Life on the Land is a collection of lyrical, compelling poems that chronicle one man's love for and dedication to a piece of land that he has nurtured and worked on much of his life. Wes Hanson's poems, arranged by seasons, will engage readers who have ever fought to protect a beloved piece of ground, from a garden plot or woodlot to a Montana cattle ranch or redwood forest. Kentucky has Wendell Berry. Idaho has Wes Hanson.
Denise Clark, Retired Librarian, North Idaho College
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