Poetry. Joyce Sutphen grew up on a working dairy farm, and her poems recover this lost world, with all its beauty and order. This collection traces a shift in the rural landscape from horses to tractors, from haystacks to hay bales--and watches as time ages and changes the people who make up the story. FIRST WORDS is both elegy and celebration--ultimately its center is family, then and now.
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