{"product_id":"the-mad-farmers-wife-rita-sims-quillen-9781680030990","title":"The Mad Farmer's Wife","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Mad Farmer's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e is a response to a life lived on a mountain cattle farm in Southwest Virginia and also to a poetic persona created by noted Kentucky poet and essayist Wendell Berry over thirty years ago: the Mad Farmer. In a world increasingly detached from the land that supplies our all our essential resources, \u003ci\u003eThe Mad Farmer's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e tries to help us understand the complexity and challenge of living that life in today's economy and the dark life and death struggles that are a routine part of farm living. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrayer of the Mad Farmer's Wife\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e May the weeds grow into heart-shaped hedges \u003cbr\u003e Giving symmetry and order to ragged fields \u003cbr\u003e That August sun has turned loose and ugly \u003cbr\u003e Let sunburned calves and their tired mothers \u003cbr\u003e Find a pool of winter--cool shade \u003cbr\u003e Between woods and creek at our world's edge. \u003cbr\u003e I am lost on a heat-shimmering quilt \u003cbr\u003e Just yards from an open door where \u003cbr\u003e My children watch for the relief of nightfall \u003cbr\u003e And aimless bees and flies look to me \u003cbr\u003e Saying, \"You must know something.\" \u003cbr\u003e Let there be silence once again \u003cbr\u003e As voices dwindle to snowsoft murmur \u003cbr\u003e My life rising anew from behind the mountain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rita Sims Quillen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 168003099X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680030990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trp: The University Press of Shsu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.10d","brand":"Rita Sims Quillen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241436164351,"sku":"9781680030990","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8506440e-a6e3-4ca9-9863-139be5729dae.jpg?v=1772654400","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mad-farmers-wife-rita-sims-quillen-9781680030990","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}