The Middle of the World reflects Norris's strong gifts as a storyteller and poet of place. The locales are New York City, where she formerly lived, and South Dakota west of the Missouri River, where she is business manager of a family farm that raises wheat, sunflowers, and Hereford cattle. "The poems are about these places," she writes, "and the more or less imagined lives in them: and also about family and inheritance; it was inheritance that moved me to South Dakota. Some of the poems are about faith: my own ideas as ...
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The Middle of the World reflects Norris's strong gifts as a storyteller and poet of place. The locales are New York City, where she formerly lived, and South Dakota west of the Missouri River, where she is business manager of a family farm that raises wheat, sunflowers, and Hereford cattle. "The poems are about these places," she writes, "and the more or less imagined lives in them: and also about family and inheritance; it was inheritance that moved me to South Dakota. Some of the poems are about faith: my own ideas as well as the traditional religious faith that is a thread running through my family history, both enhancing lives and running them."
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Near Fine in Near fine jacket. Yellow cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 80pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked but top edge of block is foxed. DJ has mild rubbing.
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Very Good. SIGNED BY AUTHOR! Dust jacket has light shelf wear, name on first page, otherwise pages are clean, tight and bright! Overall in great condition!
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