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R.F.D. IOWA:
IOWA POETRY
Myrna Sandvik
1-888160-26-8,
$8.95 (Feb., 2007)
Former editor with the North American Review, Myrna Sandvik, gifts us poems postmarked from our past, but speaking to our lives today. She creates an autobiography in forty-six poems: snapshots of a life that stemmed from these rural beginnings.— Barbara Lounsberry, Professor of English, University of Northern Iowa
“Sandvik memorably evokes what it’s like to be a girl growing up on the farm and ending up a city woman against the backdrop of family farms dwindling into a historical footnote. Sandvik’s tribute to farm life is an important reminder of how the rural defines what it truly meant, yesterday, as well as what it means, today, to be a Midwestern woman.”—Vince Gotera, North American Review
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