{"product_id":"set-the-ploughshare-deep-a-prairie-memoir-9780821413227","title":"Set the Ploughshare Deep: A Prairie Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eFifteen years in the making  Set the Ploughshare Deep is a memoir in prose  verse  and woodcuts. It depicts the consequences of Warrens advice for a writer who turned his back on cities and the academic world  who bought and sold  farmed and failed like his forebears  all the while distilling what he saw  heard  or felt into his tall tales and short verses. Timothy Murphy has harvested pheasants and ducks as well as wheat and apples. For him  hunting is often an extended reflection on mortality  yet it also affords apt occasions for his quirky sense of humor. Father  the dog and I are learning how to die with our feet stuck in the muck and our eyes trained on the sky. Like Murphy  artist Charles Beck has lived all his life in the bleak yet bountiful country near the Red River. His vividly colored woodcuts  along with Vincent Murphys reminiscence of Dust Bowl days on a Minnesota farm  perfectly complement the younger Murphys work. The result is a blending of forms and visions that poet and critic Timothy Steele has likened to Dantes La Vita Nuova. Set the Ploughshare Deep cannot be easily categorized  only experienced. An American story from deep in the great Midwest  it is as timely as news headlines on the farm crisis  and as timeless as the bucolic poems of Horace and the landscapes of Van Gogh.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924255932469,"sku":"ByrdShop_0821413228","price":248.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780821413227.jpg?v=1794131225","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/set-the-ploughshare-deep-a-prairie-memoir-9780821413227","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}