Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West - Softcover

Hasselstrom, Linda M.; Collier, Gaydell; Curtis, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395901316 ISBN 13: 9780395901311

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1998

Synopsis

Originally published in 1997 by Houghton Mifflin, this is a collection of true stories, essays and poems which tell of the glories and rigours of living close to the land.

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Review:

Hearts of the West are unburdened in Leaning into the Wind, an anthology encompassing a wealth of experiences from farmers, ranchers, rangers and other women who live and work in America's ofttimes harsh, sometimes beautiful high plains states shoehorned between the Mississippi and the Rockies. A New York newspaper writer transplanted to a hog farm on the "baking brown plains" sees a sagging trailer, rubbish and waist-high weeds where her exuberant husband sees only promise. Waking on a bed of sweet straw after sobbing hysterically, she finds "dozens of piglets curled around me, nestled against my hips, tucked under my outspread arms, piled like a halo around my head." Other contributors wax poetic, describing an old pickup truck that "wanders down the road like a drunken goose" or steam coming off a newborn lamb in the chill night air. The selections tend towards the rough-edged and gritty, but all are heartfelt.

Review:

"A truly rich contribution to the natural literature of America." - Dee Brown

"205 voices that will knock your heart out." The Denver Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0395901316
• ISBN 13: 9780395901311
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Hasselstrom Linda M., Collier Gaydell, Curtis Nancy