This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains -- Save 30%

You're receiving this email because you have expressed an interest in Columbia University Press.

 

You may unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive our emails.

Columbia University Press "We ought to be immensely grateful to David Stark and Nancy Warner for inviting us to their deeply moving séance." -- Ted Kooser, former U.S. Poet Laureate Read an excerpt and view photographs Read an interview with Nancy Warner More images and voices from This Place, These People here, here, and here   Reviews Table of Contents This Place, These People Life and Shadow on the Great Plains   David Stark; Photographs by Nancy Warner   "These resonant photographs and recollections evoke a world almost gone from American life. They are as filled with time as old monuments, and as moving." - Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The numbers of farms and farmers on the Great Plains are dwindling. Disappearing even faster are the farm places-the houses, barns, and outbuildings that made the rural landscape a place of habitation. Nancy Warner's photographs tell the stories of buildings that were once loved yet have now been abandoned. Her evocative images are juxtaposed with the voices of Nebraska farm people, lovingly recorded by sociologist David Stark. These plainspoken recollections tell of a way of life that continues to evolve in the face of wrenching change. Warner's spare, formal photographs invite readers to listen to the cadences and tough-minded humor of everyday speech in the Great Plains. Stark's afterword grounds the project in the historical relationship between people and their land. In the tradition of Wright Morris, this combination of words and images is both art and document, evoking memories, emotions, and questions for anyone with rural American roots. Order Now and Save 30%!   $39.95 $27.97 Use discount code THISTA at check-out £27.95 | Cloth | 128 pages | 70 photographs       FOLLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

Forward this email This email was sent to ignoble.experiment@arconati.us by pl2164@columbia.edu |   Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. Columbia University Press | 61 West 62nd Street | New York | NY | 10023