{"product_id":"hags-on-tractors-paperback-1","title":"Hags on Tractors - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePenny Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these memoir-textured poems, Penny Johnson puts us in the driver's seat-of a tractor that is-and shows us what it means to be a mature, rural woman grappling with the land and its seasonal weather changes, as well as the unique challenge of leading this life amidst a male-dominated field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---------------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Hags on Tractors, Penny Johnson's poems enter the land and finger the coloring change of beige mushroom, vermillion tomatoes, evergreen rosemary, fat-thumbed blackberries, magenta holly hocks in her deeply porous study under the unforgiving sky. She ingests this place, [a]s if land can hold still all it burns, buries and brings alive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Beatrix Gates, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Burning Key: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems (1973-2023)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Johnson thumbs her nose at tradition, engaging us through a structure which floats and spins and turns in on itself....her poems bring the rural scene to life with all its sights, smells, sounds, tastes and challenges\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Susan Blair, editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Shrub-Steppe Poetry Journal, \u003c\/em\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eA Howling\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWhat Remains of a Life\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The power of these poems is due to the simple fact that Johnson has invented a language using English words that resembles to great effect the nature of trauma, disassociation, sexuality, cars, boys, horses.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Michael Kline, author of \u003cem\u003eWhen I Was a Twin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 44\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353492504825,"sku":"9781956285789","price":16.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Eg-dqwkSxo9781956285789_8a5bef47-c24a-46d6-a28f-65d912230de1.webp?v=1769824989","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/hags-on-tractors-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}