{"product_id":"at-quarry-farm-james-plath-9781639807543","title":"At Quarry Farm","description":"James Plath's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Quarry Farm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a finely-tuned collection that reverberates with the purest chords of Mark Twain as man, writer, husband, and father. These exquisitely-rendered and often precise poems are a celebration of Twain in his most distilled and life-affirming element: working on his finest novels, during joy-filled summers, among the family he deeply loved, and lost, one by one, except a single surviving daughter. Plath poignantly notes the courage it took for Twain to go on after such loss, and to twist from his sorrow pure creation. Through his own depth of empathy for Twain, James Plath has done the same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorian Hemingway\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalking into the River\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalk on Water: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam Clemens would be pleased by this book, to have drawn the poet from the scatteration of the 21st to the delicacy of the 19th, the writer at work on Huck Finn in a cloud of smoke, the hikes with his girls, the barn cats and billiards and Regulator clock and Livy on the porch. Life is play, meant to be lived, was then and is now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarrison Keillor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLake Wobegon Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand editor, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the Langdon family gave Quarry Farm to Elmira College, they insisted the house not turn into a museum, but a retreat for scholars, writers, and artists working in the field of Mark Twain Studies. Quarry Farm is a special place, and James Plath has captured the essence of what it's like to live and work there. Not many people have the opportunity to experience Quarry Farm as it's meant to be experienced, but Plath gets them pretty darn close. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Joseph Lemak\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, director, Center for Mark Twain Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Plath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639807543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639807543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Plath","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437491695871,"sku":"9781639807543","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_79c037f1-f2bd-42e1-8216-3581eb64f029.jpg?v=1777162174","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/at-quarry-farm-james-plath-9781639807543","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}