In June of 1964, a burned-out California high school teacher and his poet wife packed up their children and all their worldly goods and headed for a small, wood-heated, unplumbed lakeshore cabin in the woods of central Minnesota. They wanted to change their lives. "Journeying Earthward" is the thirty-eight year chronicle of that change, full of "thunderstorms, tornadoes, droughts, blizzards, chainsaws, barbed wire, manure, lambing, weeding, egg-picking, canning, freezing, butchering, building..." It is a memoir of living, child-rearing, and writing counter to the prevailing popular trends. It is also a do-it-yourself book--how to build an earth-friendly house with your own materials, how to live richly with very little money, how to turn a deaf ear to people who tell you you're nuts. It is a love story--a man, a woman, a place, a family.

Journeying Earthward

Rylander, Edith

Rylander, John

Biographies & Memoirs

Big Swan Press

Poetry. DANCE WITH THE DARKER SISTER is Edith Rylander's third volume of poetry. In this poem sequence, the economic migrations of a working class family dance hand in hand with the history and myths of the American westward movement. In these tough-minded lyrics, one American woman asks herself, What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to live a good life?

Dance with the Darker Sister

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Red Dragonfly Press

<p>They've Packed up the Rock and Roll: Poems 1955 - 2018 is both a selection of new poems and a collection of older work which has never been issued in book form before. The poems reflect life experience from the author's twenties to her eighties and each section of the book represents a theme or concern in human life.</p>

They've Packed Up the Rock and Roll: Poems 1955 – 2018

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