Stubble Field

Poetry. "It would be a mistake to call this fourth collection of work set in the American Midwest 'farming' poems, though small farms and communities are at their center. These are poems about people: about what they make ofthemselves from what is offered to them; the lessons and opportunities of work; how responsibility to land, animals, and tools shapes us or fails to; what fidelity we owe to those with whom we live. Wise and generous, whenthere's labor to be done, these are the poems that show up with a worn tool belt, packing their own lunch." Samuel Green, Inaugural Poet Laureate, Washington State"