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| Title: | Gift of Country Life
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| Author: | Victor Carl Friesen |
| ISBN: | 1897045077 : 9781897045077 |
| Illustrations: | colour & b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 170x185mm |
| Pages: | 112 |
| Weight: | .22 Kg. |
| Published: | Dundurn Press (Natural Heritage Books) - October 2005 |
| List Price: | 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Works by individual poets: from c1900- |
Memories of farming in the 1940s conjure up images of horse-drawn farm machinery, grain stooks in fields, hay meadows, free-range chickens and cords of wood strategically placed for fuelling the kitchen range -- all before farming became the highly technical, big-time operation it is now. Author Victor Carl Friesen was born and raised on a quarter section farm in Saskatchewan and still owns the 'home place'. It is there he still goes to renew his inner being. His poems, grouped into seasonal activities or observations, celebrate the rural world. Written in traditional blank verse, his poetry includes activities of yesteryear, his personal connections to rural life and his reverence for nature. Nature, as Henry David Thoreau said, is: one and continuous.
