{"product_id":"nine-acres-paperback","title":"Nine Acres - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNathaniel Perry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarie Howe\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Marie Howe from over one thousand submissions, \u003ci\u003eNine Acres\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\/APR Honickman First Book Prize. Taking their titles from chapters of a 1930s small-scale farming handbook, the fifty-two poems in this cycle create a handbook for living and explore sustainability on many levels--on the land, in the family, and in the spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Marie Howe writes in her introduction to the book, \"Nathanial Perry has collected poems into this book as one plants a field, as an act of husbandry: each line a furrow where seeds flourish or fail. Husbandry--to create a dwelling place and to care for it--these are the ancient acts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Soil Surface Management\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI spent the afternoon breaking\u003cbr\u003eground. The tiller bucked and groaned\u003cbr\u003eat the job, but with each pass I saw\u003cbr\u003ea perfect blankness, like I'd been loaned\u003cbr\u003ea second life in which to grow\u003cbr\u003ea third. The sun sat on its porch\u003cbr\u003eand smiled. I wondered if the dirt\u003cbr\u003ewould be enough, a kind of torch\u003cbr\u003eto set inside our lives to say, \u003cbr\u003ewe'll grow our food like this, our plans\u003cbr\u003ewill look like this --like soil squared\u003cbr\u003eand measured into beds by a man\u003cbr\u003esweating through his shirt with effort.\u003cbr\u003eIn dirt is one life we can choose\u003cbr\u003eto make. I spent the afternoon\u003cbr\u003ebreaking what I knew we'd use.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathaniel Perry\u003c\/b\u003e lives with his family in rural southside Virginia. He is the editor of the \u003ci\u003eHampden-Sydney Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e and teaches at Hampden-Sydney College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Perry: Nathaniel Perry lives with his family in rural southside Virginia. He is the editor of the \u003ci\u003eHampden-Sydney Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e and teaches at Hampden-Sydney College.\u003cbr\u003eMarie Howe: Marie Howe was born in 1950 and received her MFA from Columbia University. Her debut volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Thief, \u003c\/i\u003e was selected by Margaret Atwood as winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series. Since then, she has published two more collections, \u003ci\u003eWhat the Living Do\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom of the Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50339328229613,"sku":"9780983300809","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/XDwtlafczv9780983300809.webp?v=1785103938","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/nine-acres-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}