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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Evelyn I. FundaPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.399kg ISBN: 9780803244962ISBN 10: 0803244967 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 01 September 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"List of illustrationsPreface: ""In Dirt We Trust"" DodderLoosestrifeWild OatsSageCheatgrass""The True Point of Beginning"" NotesAcknowledgments"ReviewsWeeds is a loving, poignant, and insightful story. I'm placing my copy of it on the same shelf in my home library as the western memoirs of William Kittredge, Linda Hasselstrom, Ivan Doig, and Terry Tempest Williams. - Lisa Knopp, author of What the River Carries Funda writes about farming, family, love, and loss with the ear of a poet and the eye of a scholar... Weeds is a soulful, intelligent reexamination of what it means to be an orphaned daughter of the American Dream. - Kim Barnes, author of In the Kingdom of Men Weeds is written with a scholar's exactitude and a daughter's heart. Her book is a beautiful meditation on the generations that have lived and farmed and passed along the painful, powerful legacies of the land that claimed them. - Mary Clearman Blew, author of This Is Not the Ivy League Weeds is written with a scholar's exactitude and a daughter's heart. Her book is a beautiful meditation on the generations that have lived and farmed and passed along the painful, powerful legacies of the land that claimed them. --Mary Clearman Blew, author of This Is Not the Ivy League --Mary Clearman Blew (03/04/2013) Author InformationEvelyn I. Funda is an associate professor of American literature at Utah State University. She has written extensively on Willa Cather and her creative nonfiction has appeared in literary magazines, including Prairie Schooner. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |