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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Milkweed Ladies

The Milkweed Ladies

McNeill, Louise

Paperback

Series: Regional

Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 0822954060
ISBN13: 9780822954064
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Aug 19 1988
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
The Milkweed Ladies is written out of deep affection for and intimate knowledge of the lives of rural people and the rhythms of the natural world. It is a personal account of the farm in southern West Virginia where poet Louise McNeill's family has lived for nine generations.
The Milkweed Ladies is filled with memorable characters--an herb-gathering granny, McNeill's sailor father, her patient, flower-loving mother, and Aunt Malindy in her black sateen dress who never did a lick of work. McNeill writes movingly of the harsh routines of the lives of her family, from spring plowing to winter sugaring, and of the hold the farm itself has on them and the earth itself on all of us. McNeill juxtaposes the life of the farm with the larger world events that impinge on it, such as the destruction from lumber companies in the 1930s and World War II in the '40s.

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