The Middle of the World

by Kathleen Norris

The Middle of the World reflects Norris's strong gifts as a storyteller and poet of place. The locales are New York City, where she formerly lived, and South Dakota west of the Missouri River, where she is business manager of a family farm that raises wheat, sunflowers, and Hereford cattle. The poems are about these places, she writes, and the more or less imagined lives in them: and also about family and inheritance; it was inheritance that moved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082295334X
• ISBN13: 9780822953340
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.