Over this soil
Subtitle: an anthology of world farm poems
By: edited by Catherine Webster ; foreword by James Galvin.
Contributors: Webster, Catherine, 1944-
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Farm life -- Poetry.; Domestic animals -- Poetry.
Description: As a natural outgrowth from her anthology of contemporary American farm poems, Handspan of Red Earth, editor Catherine Webster has devoted herself over the past years to gathering this collection of farm poems from writers around the world. Over This Soil urges us to preserve our farmlands, to increase our responsibilities of land stewardship, and to intelligently maintain the agricultural necessities of our lives.