Rock Tree Bird

Poetry. Womens Studies. This collection of poems by the State Poet of Nebraska covers significant emotional territory while remaining firmly grounded in the landscape. From memories of the isolation and beauty of growing up on a farm to a burgeoning awareness as a teenager of the economic and cultural forces waged against family farming to coming to terms with the legacies of her parents after their passing and finally arriving at an appreciation of nature and the environment wherever and whenever she finds it Twyla M. Hansen offers poems that are alternately sad sweet funny moving human and humane.