Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice

Cosmos tries to fit in with his ultra-conservative relatives in Iowa by adopting the persona of William the Nice. But when he falls unexpectedly in love, he questions which persona is more real. Thought-provoking and sensual, yet respectful of multiple viewpoints, this is a unique coming-of-age novel and a compelling love story.

Teen & Young Adult

Jim Heynen

Literature & Fiction

Tandem Library

Stories deal with the innocence of children, disillusionment, moral issues, rural life, illness, and the relationship between people and nature

You Know What Is Right

NORTH POINT PRESS

Michael Harker drove past old barns on gravel roads and blacktop highways for years. He generally dismissed them as obsolete outbuildings until November 1993, when he felt compelled to photograph a windmill in Clutier, Iowa. This single photograph launched him on a seven-and-a-half-year mission to document Iowa's barns and all they represent. The result is Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon.
Each of the seventy-five black-and-white images featured in Harker's Barns beautifully and heartbreakingly captures the glory and ultimate demise of one of rural America's most enduring icons. From square to round, wood to brick, Dutch to Swedish, occupied or abandoned, the barns documented in this stunning collection are a testament to a passing way of life that was once the lifeblood of Iowa and the Midwest.
Complementing Harker's photographs are vignettes by poet and writer Jim Heynen. Both whimsical and endearing, each vignette treats barns as organic and intelligent entities, reflecting the living history that can be found inside each rural structure. Iowa's barns are disappearing and with them a way of life; Harker's Barns brilliantly documents their heritage for future generations. As Jim Heynen says, “A good photograph can maintain an old barn through blizzards and hail storms and tornadoes. It is the best support beam and wood preservative an old barn can have.”

Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon (Bur Oak Book)

Arts & Photography

Michael P. Harker

Individual Artists

University Of Iowa Press

The Man Who Kept Cigars In His Cap

Graywolf Press

In this relentlessly honest poetry of the American West in the 1970's, Jim Heynen discovers a wealth of forms for its contradictions, cruelties and changing beauties. NOTES FROM CUSTER reveals a civilization haunted and fragmented by its own past.

Notes from Custer

Bear Claw Press

Being Youngest

Macmillan Trade

Exploration of the ties between weather and living in place. A wonderful mix of Midwestern authors including new work by Jim Heynen. This is part of the harvest book series.

Prairie Weather

Science & Math

Scott Cawelti

Mary Swander

Debra Marquart

Thomas Dean

Patrick Irelan

Robert Sayre

Amy Kolen

Ron Sandvik

Earth Sciences

Ice Cube Press

The late Minnesota author Paul Gruchow was often described as beautifully intense,bard-like and prophetic.While plying his talents as seer and naturalist, Gruchow was also a master of trenchant insight into the right ways of living, as well as the foibles and hypocrisies of modern society. This collection honors the memory of Paul Gruchow through the words of the many he touched as mentor, teacher, colleague, friend. The Grace of Grass and Water brings together new writings by award winning authors Mary Pipher, Bill Holm, Carol Bly, Jim Heynen, Mark Vinz, Gary Deason, Louis Martintelli, Bob Artley and Thomas Dean as well as one of Paul Gruchow s last essays.

The Grace of Grass and Water: Writing in Honor of Paul Gruchow

Biographies & Memoirs

Mary Pipher

Bill Holm

Carol Bly

BobArtley

Gary Deason

Paul Gruchow

Louis Martinelli

Mark Vinz

Arts & Literature

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