Set the Ploughshare Deep: A Prairie Memoir ***SIGNED***
Language: English
Published by Ohio University Press, Athens OH, 2000
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Shade of the Cottonwood, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.Shade of the Cottonwood
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Near fine first/first signed by both author and illustrator on half-title page. Unread with clean and tight interior. Light shelfwear such as rubbed base edges. Dust jacket is scuffed with some impression marks.
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- Title
- Set the Ploughshare Deep: A Prairie Memoir ***SIGNED***
- Author
- Murphy, Timothy
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press, Athens OH
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- signed by authors or artist
- Binding
- Hardcover/Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 082141321X
- ISBN 13
- 9780821413210
- Illustrator
- Beck, Charles
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Printing
- 1st printing
- Seller catalogs
- Fine Art, Memoir, Poetry
Fifteen years in the making, Set the Ploughshare Deep is a memoir in prose, verse, and woodcuts. It depicts the consequences of Warren's advice for a writer who turned his back on cities and the academic world, who bought and sold, farmed and failed like his forebears, all the while distilling what he saw, heard, or felt into his tall tales and short verses. Timothy Murphy has harvested pheasants and ducks as well as wheat and apples. For him, hunting is often an extended reflection on mortality, yet it also affords apt occasions for his quirky sense of humor.
Father, the dog and I
are learning how to die
with our feet stuck in the muck
and our eyes trained on the sky.
Like Murphy, artist Charles Beck has lived all his life in the bleak yet bountiful country near the Red River. His vividly colored woodcuts, along with Vincent Murphy's reminiscence of Dust Bowl days on a Minnesota farm, perfectly complement the younger Murphy's work. The result is a blending of forms and visions that poet and critic Timothy Steele has likened to Dante's La Vita Nuova.
Set the Ploughshare Deep cannot be easily categorized, only experienced. An American story from deep in the great Midwest, it is as timely as news headlines on the farm crisis, and as timeless as the bucolic poems of Horace and the landscapes of Van Gogh.
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