{"product_id":"the-farm-wifes-almanac-9781680270150","title":"The Farm Wife's Almanac","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs she contends with forces that threaten to uproot what she loves, the farm wife emerges as a prophetic voice from America's heartland, embracing a concept of community that includes the dead and the living, neighbors and strangers, cultivated fields and ditches thick with milkweed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The farm wife names children after beloved cows, plays rook, and wants to be buried in a root cellar. In poem after poem we see what might appear to be a sheltered, insular life in its true and astonishing expansiveness. These are poems of both intensity and calm beauty, transformative in their vision of the holiness in the everyday.\" \u003cem\u003e--Jill Pel ez Baumgaertner, Author, What Cannot Be Fixed and Poetry Editor, The Christian Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuote: \u003c\/strong\u003eOne of the closing farm wife poems, \"The farm wife reviews the Tornado Theater at Menno-Hof Museum,\" reports that \"In the rubble of Eli Yoder's house \/ all they found intact was a glass jug \/ with a carving stuck inside: 'Fear God' \/ on one side-- 'God Is Love' on the other. \/ Eli took that as a sign of the Almighty's power, \/ but I believe whirling wind spins the bottle \/ and God is in the dark with us, \/ not writing down what happens next.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Author: \u003c\/strong\u003eShari Wagner was\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eIndiana Poet Laureate 2016-2017 and is author of two books of poems: \u003cem\u003eThe Harmonist at Nightfall: Poems of Indiana \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvening Chore.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eHer poems have appeared in many magazines, including \u003cem\u003eNorth American Review, Shenandoah, The Christian Century, The Writer's Almanac, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAmerican Life in Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. She has taught creative writing in elementary schools, high schools, colleges, community centers, libraries, and nursing homes. She teaches for the Indiana Writers Center; Indiana University-Purdue University's Religion, Spirituality and the Arts Seminar; and Bethany Theological Seminary's graduate program in theopoetics and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dreamseeker Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50475093917970,"sku":"9781680270150","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_51648f21-2bdd-4477-985a-dd7f679201a3.jpg?v=1730230737","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-farm-wifes-almanac-9781680270150","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}