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As she contends with forces that threaten to uproot what she loves, the farm wife emerges as a prophetic voice from America's heartland, embracing a concept of community that includes the dead and the living, neighbors and strangers, cultivated fields, and ditches thick with milkweed.
"Frost's "momentary stay against confusion" is Barbara Esch Shisler's mode of trying to make sense of life through poems that worry the riddles of getting old, family dynamics, dreams, prayer, the evening news, bees--not to mention love, death, and God." "[summary]"--
"This allegorical novel tells of a young woman's journey through the need, after God became sick, to kill the God she knew to make space for a God beyond the cherished notions through which she had imprisoned God." "[summary]"--
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