Mighty Good Land

by Dan Powers

Mighty Good Land evokes a nearly forgotten world of joy and pain tied intimately to the harvest. In the battle to keep his farm afloat, a farmer struggles with strains on his marriage, family, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097063711X
• ISBN13: 9780970637116
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Black Greyhound Media
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Mighty Good Poetry

I love Dan Powers's topics, and I love his techniques. I think these poems came straight from his heart. How endearing that he allows us to peek into his personal life. I find despair as well as hope. The poems are so close to my reality that I cringed seeing the words in print. At other times I cried. I'll treasure these to read again and again. Give us more, Dan.

Mighty Good Land

Dan' Power's poetry is made from the substance of real life with no facades, no illusions, and no apologies. Power's honest angst, and real images describe the lost American soul, and reminds us of who we used to be. Anyone with an acquaintance of sub-rural life and it's people should spend some time in the pages of this book Vol Lindsey, Writer, English teacher

Dan Powers Mighty Good Land

Mighty Good Land is the long awaited first volume of Dan Powers for poets and readers around Nashville. He was featured in Bob Holman's United States of Poetry. Here his range is given full allowance and he shows his poet's wings to be strong and stable. Dan is a patiarch for many poets around Nashville and this volume is a fine representation of his style and the movements and rhythms that all us experience, albeit, diferently. So with the breath of his words and the words themselves we live a life personally experienced and gently guided in the great tradition of capturing a diminishing way of life, such as Jean Toomer's poetic break through CANE.

A must read, must have for poetry lovers.....

After reading Mighty Good Land, I will state without hesitation that Dan Powers can hold his own in any company of poets. These poems come from a place of incredible strength and dignity. In "Good Earth and Poor," sometimes a man has to settle for less than he had hoped, and let it be enough: He paid my way to ag school and settled for two and a half acres in the middle of the bend, a stand of walnuts on the hill and earth black in the center for a garden that would grow tomatoes, beans, and sweet corn -- where his motion, wheeled in the order of those green rows, was more of grace and dance than toil... "Aching Hands" has a trembling sense of hope and despair so poignant I could scarcely bear to read it. I quote one excerpt here: My best gloves won't stay on for anything, won't keep these farmer's hands from growing rough and cracked in the cold or keep them from aching in the heat of the woodstove. I bend an hour over the bathroom sink, scouring black dirt and grease from knuckles and fingernails, rubbing hand cream into my palms and thinking of your breasts warm and sleek beneath the red satin gown from Christmas. From the aesthetically pleasing cover to the poems inside, this book is beautiful in every way. Whether expressing despair, horror, suppressed rage, or a fluttering flame of sexuality not quite snuffed by life, Dan Powers' poetry communicates a powerful message of quiet dignity. Mighty Good Land is highly recommended.