Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom

by Zachary Michael Jack

Book Overview

The collected reflections and wisdoms of 30 contemporary farmer-writer-teachers

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157003611X
• ISBN13: 9781570036118
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"