Black Earth And Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm And Classroom
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Heralding the seventy-fifth anniversary of the quintessential agrarian anthology I'll Take My Stand, Zachary Michael Jack, himself a fourth generation farmer's son, has assembled North America's foremost contemporary writers on the present rural experience to provide their own twenty-first-century insights.
In the grand tradition of farmer-writers Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, and Andrew Lytle, Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom gathers the disparate wisdoms of modern-day stewards of the land including Victor David Hanson, Michael Martone, Linda Hasselstrom, John Hildebrand, "Country Things" cartoonist Bob Artley, and Duane Acker, former U.S. assistant secretary of science and education and former president of Kansas State University.
These gifted teachers and growers offer hard-won inspiration from the field and the classroom, exemplifying the multifaceted, farm-grounded talents that call them to lives as writers, visual artists, conservation tillers, environmentalists, economists, policymakers, extension agents, and grassroots activists. Seeking a balanced life that reconciles the hands, heart, and head, they follow roads less traveled to find agrarian lifestyles at once enlightening and challenging. At a time when less than two percent of Americans count themselves as farmers, these writer-all of whom have cultivated the earth and climbed the ivory tower-underscore the diversity of the American farm as a wellspring of learning. Their plainspoken commentaries on modern farming, teaching, and living will remind older generations of time-honored, agrarian values and provide a new generation with a literate, critical account of shifting national priorities.
From the Inside Flap
"At its heart, this book is for the students and teachers among us, formal and informal, certifiable and apocryphal. It's for the ag-dedicated high schooler about to walk the stage and move on to Iowa State, Michigan State, or Tennessee Tech as much as it is for the ag-inspired teacher about to graduate into the practical and applied world beyond the classroom. This book is for anyone who ever farmed seriously and everyone who ever seriously wanted to farm."-from the preface
"Black Earth and Ivory Tower not only depicts accurately the peculiar attitude toward farming shared by those of us who have had one foot on the farm and one in the university, but it also speaks volumes for all farmer. The essays are excellent in their grasp of the realities of the contemporary agrarian experience and in their poignancy about the bittersweet passing of an American way of life." -Gene Logsdon, author of All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming
Black Earth And Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm And Classroom
Black Earth And Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm And Classroom,Zachary Michael Jack,University of South Carolina Press,157003611X,Agriculture,Agriculture - General,Essays,Farm life,History - General History,Social Science,Sociology,Sociology - Urban,Study and teaching (Higher),United States - General,Agriculture & Farming,Other prose: from c 1900 -
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