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1 A Wrestling Life 2 . Dan Gable, with Kyle Klingman
MAKING LOCAL FOOD WORK

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the chaLlengEs and opPortunitIes

of tOdays smalL faRmers
brAndi jansSeN
2 Finding Bix . Brendan Wolfe

3 China Lake . Barret Baumgart
4 From Warm Center to Ragged Edge . Jon K. Lauck
5 Its Just the Normal Noises . Timothy Gray
6 Odd Bloom Seen from Space . Timothy Daniel Welch
7 Tremulous Hinge . Adam Giannelli
8 London in a Box . Odai Johnson
9 Making Local Food Work . Brandi Janssen
TREMULOUS HINGE
10 Harvest of Hazards . Derek S. Oden

TREMULOUS HINGE
adam giannelli
adam giannelli
11 Women in Agriculture . Linda M. Ambrose and Joan M. Jensen, eds.

12 Susan Glaspells Poetics and Politics of Rebellion . Emeline Jouve
13 Traveler, There Is No Road . Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
14 Writing Not Writing . Tom Fisher
15 Whitmans Drift . Matt Cohen
16 The Portrait and the Book . Megan Walsh
17 Published Fall 2016
FINDING BIX
the life and afterlife of a jazz legend

BRENDAN WOLFE
18 General Interest Backlist Bestsellers

19 Regional Bestsellers
20 Scholarly Bestsellers
21 Recent Book Honors and Reviews
2223 Indexes
23 Desk and Exam Copy Policies
24 Contact Information
25 Sales Representation
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A Wrestling Life 2
More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable
A Wrestling life 2
More InspIrIng storIes of Dan gable
by Dan Gable, with Kyle Klingman

The follow up to the New York Times Bestseller
When most people think of the celebrated greatness that is

Coach Dan Gable, they think of an almost mythic intensity toward
wrestling. Gable breathes and bleeds the sport, and faithfully apDan gable
plies lessons learned from both on and off the mat. Expanding
with Kyle Klingman
upon Gables first collection of stories, A Wrestling Life 2 goes a little
deeper into the mindset and life events that have shaped the man,
the wrestler, and the coach.
Through stories funny, heartfelt, intense, and always engaging, Gable shares more about the life he has lead and what can be
learned from those experiences. He goes on to detail what have
come to be known as the Gable Trained principles that he follows
to keep his life full of wins, the revelations about how to cultivate
success at the highest levels, and the reasons behind these steps Praise for A Wrestling Life
Dan Gable has been called Sports Figure
for living well.
A Wrestling Life has sold more than 30,000 copies to date, spent of the Century bySports Illustrated. If
two months on the New York Times sports bestseller list, and has be- youve never heard of him (or even if you
come an instant classic of sports memoirs. A Wrestling Life 2 is sure have), youre in for a treat.A Wrestling
to add to Gables ever-growing legacy and entertain and inspire Lifedetails Gables most profound triwrestling fans everywhere.
umphs and disappointing losses. Hes
been a primary inspiration to me since I
Dan Gable has been named to the USA Wrestling Hall of Fame, the was fifteen, and this book will show you
United States Olympic Hall of Fame, and the National Wrestling why. In a modern world of political corHall of Fame, and he is the namesake of the National Wrestling Hall rectness and glad-handing, the art of the
of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo, Iowa. He has been named fight is highly undervalued. Allow Dan
the top wrestler of the twentieth century by Gannett News Services, to show you another way.Tim Ferriss,
is listed as one of the top coaches of the twentieth century by ESPN, author,The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon
and is named Iowas top sports figure in the past 100 years. In 1996, Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and
Gable was named one of the 100 Golden Olympians, an honor Becoming Superhuman
bestowed to the top 100 US Olympians of all time. During the 2012
Olympics, he was inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame Legends of The stories in A Wrestling Life offer keen inthe Sport category, becoming one of five people in the world to sight into how, beginning at a very young
receive this honor. He resides in Iowa City, Iowa, with his wife, age, Dan Gable was able to use personal
Kathy. Kyle Klingman is a regular contributor to Wrestling Insider achievement, adversity, and even tragedy
Newsmagazine (WIN) and director of the National Wrestling Hall of as motivation to reach the highest levels
Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo, Iowa.
of success and to have a profound effect
on those around him. Gables love and
commitment to his family, teammates,
teams, and friends jump out in story after
story. As a high school and college wrestler
I wanted to wrestle for Dan Gable. Now
I know why!Mike Golic, ESPN broadcaster, NFL player, Notre Dame football
player and wrestler
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Finding Bix
The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend
by Brendan Wolfe
FINDING BIX

BRENDAN WOLFE
This book has the potential to spread Bixs reputation and share his
work with a wider audience. Similar to Peter Guralnicks Searching
for Robert Johnson, Brendan Wolfes book delves beyond the bio and
music and into the often conflicting details of Bixs personal life, an
approach that sheds light on the facts of the subjects life and the
fleeting nature of truth.Preston Lauterbach, author, The Chitlin
Circuit and Beale Street Dynasty
Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz.

Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first
important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the
way to cool jazz. But his recording career lasted just six years; he
drank himself to death in 1931at the age of twenty-eight. It was
this meteoric rise and fall, combined with the searing originality Funny, passionate, and touching
of his playing and the mystery of his characterwho was Bix? not sometimes in the same sentence. While
even his friends or family seemed to knowthat inspired subse- the book is about Bix, its also not really
quent generations to imitate him, worship him, and write about about Bix; the ideas it containsidenhim. It also provoked Brendan Wolfes Finding Bix, a personal and tity, fame, originality, addiction, obsession, truthare universal. The structure
often surprising attempt to connect music, history, and legend.
A native of Beiderbeckes hometown of Davenport, Iowa, Wolfe mimics a jazz song, specifically Bixs
grew up seeing Bixs iconic portrait on everything from posters to music. Wolfe blends boundaries la
parking garages. He never heard his music, though, until cast to Leslie Jamison or John DAgata, but
play a bit part in an Italian biopic filmed in Davenport. Then, after retains the musical element as Amanda
writing a newspaper review of a book about Beiderbecke, Wolfe un- Petrusich would.Jay Varner, author,
expectedly received a letter from the late musicians nephew scold- Nothing Left to Burn
ing him for getting a number of facts wrong. This is where Finding
Bix begins: in Wolfes good-faith attempt to get the facts right.
What follows is anything but straightforward, as Wolfe discovers Bix Beiderbecke to be at the heart of furious and ever-timely
disputes over addiction, race, and the origins of jazz, sex, and the
influence of commerce on art. He also uncovers proof that the only
newspaper interview Bix gave in his lifetime was a fraud, almost
entirely plagiarized from several different sources. In fact, Wolfe
comes to realize that the closer he seems to get to Bix, the more
the legend retreats.
Brendan Wolfe lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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China Lake
A Journey into the Contradicted Heart
of a Global Climate Catastrophe
by Barret Baumgart
2016 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction
CHINA LAKE
A JOURNEY INTO THE
CONTRADICTED HEART OF A
GLOBAL CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
This is an astonishing debut. At once tragic and hilarious, frightening and timely, China Lake is our most provocative and personal statement on humanitys failure to come to grips with the monstrous
reality of climate change.John DAgata
John Hawkes spoke of the terrifying similarity between the unconscious desires of the solitary man and the disruptive needs of the visible world. What I find most impressive about this remarkable book
is Barret Baumgarts willingness and ability to explore this paradox.
China Lake gets at something alarming and true about nature and
human nature.David Shields, author, Reality Hunger
BARRET BAUMGART
Prehistoric shamans, weather warfare,
Barret Baumgarts literary debut presents a haunting chemtrails, geo-engineering: Baumgart

and deeply personal portrait of civilization poised at the precipice, a ties these disparate threads into a fastpicture of humanity caught between its deepest past and its darkest paced, engaging, and very personal narrafuture. In the fall of 2013, during the height of Californias historic tive about our greatest existential threat:
drought, Baumgart toured the remote military base NAWS China rapidly changing global climate. This is an
Lake near Death Valley, California. His mother, the survivor of a important book, marking the appearance
recent stroke, decided to come along for the ride. She hoped the of a talented and distinctive new literary
alleged healing power of the bases ancient Native American hot voice.David S. Whitley, author, Cave
springs might cure her crippling headaches. Baumgart sought to Paintings and the Human Spirit: The Origin of
debunk claims that the military was spraying the atmosphere with Creativity and Belief
toxic chemicals to control the weather. What follows is a discovery
that threatens to sever not only the bonds between mother and son Barret Baumgarts China Lakeis a brilliant,
but between planet Earth and life itself.
often hilarious, and thoroughly original
Stalking the fringes of Internet conspiracy, speculative science, work of nonfiction that looks at climate
and contemporary archaeology, Baumgart weaves memoir, mili- change and many other things, important
tary history, and investigative journalism in a dizzying journey or not, through the exploration of the
that carries him from the cornfields of Iowa to drought-riddled China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station in
California, from the Vietnam jungle to the caves of prehistoric the Mojave Desert. Baumgart, dragging on
Europe, and eventually the walls of the US Capitol, the sparkling his ever-powered-up e-cig and listening to
white hallways of the Pentagon, and straight into the contradicted his cherished heavy metal whenever he
heart of a worldwide climate emergency.
can, takes us on a tour of paranoiac conBarret Baumgarts work has appeared in Vice, the Gettysburg Review,
Seneca Review, the Literary Review, and Camera Obscura. He lives in Los
Angeles, California.
spiracy thought, petroglyphs, cloud seeding, chemtrails, climate manipulation, his

mothers brain and body, the Pentagon,
New Ageism, and numerous other mesmeric curiosities. Unfailingly entertaining,
keenly intelligent, and, in fact, an almost
shamefully good read.Richard Preston,
author, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True
Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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From Warm Center to Ragged Edge

The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and
Historical Regionalism, 19201965
by Jon K. Lauck
Iowa and the Midwest Experience
William B. Friedricks, series editor
During the first years of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 1918 to 1929,
eight of eleven of the writers honored were midwesterners. One,
Booth Tarkington, won twice. Jon Lauck documents the response
of major eastern critics of the period to this extraordinary cultural
floweringthat it was all an attack on the barrenness of the culture
of the Midwest. The consensus that formed around their view of this
vast region persists, to the detriment of American history as a whole.
Lauck has done valuable work in exposing the origins of an extraordinarily potent clich.Marilynne Robinson, author, Gilead
Jon Laucks learned survey of midwestern regionalism rebuts strident critics,

recovers forgotten voices, and revitalizes
our appreciation for regionalist perspectives. Read this book to engage with the
midwestern past and to imagine a new
midwestern history.Stephen Aron,
author, The American West: A Very Short
Introduction
From Warm Center to Ragged Edge is a long overdue defense and celebration of midwestern literature, culture, and history against the
starchycriticism of eastern elites. Jon Lauck has produced a robust
and scholarly work that made me want to cheer again the enduring
prose of Sinclair Lewis, the informed defense of Stuart Pratt Sherman,
and the timeless portrait of Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson.
My own prairie roots have served me well in the intellectual and concrete canyons of the eastern seaboard, and it is good to be reminded
why.Tom Brokaw
In this lucid appraisal, Jon Lauck chronicles the silencing of the rooted voices
from the solid center of the nation, the
American Midwest. A discerning intellectual history of the demise of regionalism
in American letters, as well as an impassioned argument for the importance of
local attachments in a global age.
John Mack Faragher, Howard R.
Lamar professor emeritus of history and
American studies, Yale University
During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals

and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of
American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region went
into eclipse during the postWorld War II era. In the apt language
of Minnesotas F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Midwest slid from being the
warm center of the republic to its ragged edge.
This book explains the factors that triggered the demise of the
Midwests regionalist energies, from anti-midwestern machinations in the literary world and the inability of midwestern writers to
break through the cultural politics of the era to the growing dominance of a coastal, urban culture. These developments paved the
way for the proliferation of images of the Midwest as flyover country,
the Rust Belt, a staid and decaying region. Yet Lauck urges readers
to recognize persisting and evolving forms of midwestern identity
and to resist the forces that squelch the nations interior voices.
Jon K. Lauck is the founding president of the Midwestern History
Association, the associate editor and book review editor of the
Middle West Review, and an adjunct professor of history and political
science at the University of South Dakota. He is the author or editor
of several books, including The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History (Iowa, 2013). He lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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Its Just the Normal Noises

Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression,
and the Mystery of Americana Music
by Timothy Gray
The New American Canon:
The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Samuel Cohen, series editor
Marcus, Guralnick,
No Depression ,
and the
MYSTERY
of
AMERICANA
Music
Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do
they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions
for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. Music can
function as an escape from the outside world or as an explanation
TIM OTH Y
of that world. Listeners who identify with the musics message may
shape their social understandings accordingly. Rock critics like
Greil Marcus and Peter Guralnick, titans of rock criticism, tap this
fluid dichotomy, considering the personal appeal of roots music
alongside national ideals of democracy and selfhood. So too do
many other critics, novelists, and fans, explaining to themselves There has never been a book like this
and us how music forms our selves and the communities we seek one, and it is a story that needs to be
told.David Yaffe, Syracuse University
out and build up.
In Its Just the Normal Noises, Timothy Gray examines a wide array of writing about roots music from the 1960s to the present. In A guide for those who wish to explore
addition to chapters on the genre-defining work of Guralnick and some of the best music writing of the last
Marcus, he explores the influential writings of Grant Alden and two or three decades, Its Just the Normal
Peter Blackstock, the editors of No Depression magazine, and the Noises takes a refreshing approach to the
writers who contributed to its pages, Bill Friskics-Warren, Ed Ward, study of rock music writers, rock music,
David Cantwell, and Allison Stewart among them. A host of mem- and Americana. Grays fanboy enthuoirists and novelists, from Patti Smith and Ann Powers to Eleanor siasm lights up every page and makes
Henderson and Dana Spiotta, shed light on the social effects and reading a pleasure.Thomas Kitts,
personal attachments of the musics many manifestations, from St. Johns University
punk to alt country to hardcore. The ambivalent attitudes of rock
musicians toward success and failure, the meaning of soul, the formation of alternative communities through magazine readership,
and the obsession of Generation X scenes with DIY production
values wend through these works.
Taking a personal approach to the subject matter, Gray reads
criticism and listens to music as though rock n roll not only explains American culture, but also shores up his life. This book is
for everyone whos heard in roots rock the sound of an individual
and a nation singing themselves into being.
Timothy Gray teaches American literature at College of Staten
Island, City University of New York. He is the author of Gary Snyder
and the Pacific Rim: Creating Countercultural Community (Iowa, 2006)
and Urban Pastoral: Natural Currents in the New York School (Iowa, 2010).
He lives in Plainfield, New Jersey.
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Odd Bloom Seen from Space

poems by Timothy Daniel Welch
2016 Iowa Poetry Prize
odd
bloom
seen from
space
These poems speak an odd nostalgia for what turns on, in, and
poems by
bloom
seenoffrom
spaceor a
alongside the world. A tragedy ofodd
loss,
a miracle
eroticism,
timothy daniel welch
comedy of road kill, Odd Bloom Seen from Space looks at the self amid
the ashes of fleeting exultation and uncertainty. The speaker tells
stories with wild candor on matters of heroic inadequacy while
searching through his obsessive questions for greater meaning.
But its in the act of discovery, through the heros immediate ancestry, that Welchs debut collection confronts big questions about
family, music, art, and memory. Like a contemporary Diogenes
who pursues meaning one small gesture at a time, Welch comes
to learn truth is a brutal commerce, beauty is white legs / upon
which she shed her childhood, time is Michael Jackson / hoot- In these poems, Welch is an attentive
ing in the trees, and Love is gradual, a bottle / by sips, a bottle / watcher who has lived most of my life
poured onto the floor. There is wisdom to be gained from these alone. From the little distance he cultiinventive pursuits, but in the end its not what is said, but how its vates, he manages a detailed view of the
said with terse rhetoric, deep imagery, and surprising humor that big picture. This is classical poetry set in
makes Odd Bloom Seen from Space such a gorgeous, original, and our time. For all its subtle sarcasms, this
baffling collection.
is a deeply earnest book, one sensitive
Timothy Daniel Welchs poetry may be found in journals such as
Rattle, Arts & Letters, Best New Poets, Green Mountains Review Online, and
elsewhere. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Excerpt from On the Isle of Erytheia

My virginity, like a herd of red cattle
I drove for seventeen years,
was dumb and almost
beautiful
I spent my time tending
to the animals in me. I remember their tails,
those tender curls, and
the long nights
following strays to the rim
of town and faltering, spooked
by a train whistle or the start
of an engine. Some place, this
Erytheia, for skinny boys
without a sense of butchery
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souls reckoning with a troubled age.

Craig Morgan Teicher, judge, Iowa
Poetry Prize
In language gemlike, shining, Welch
invokes the labors of Hercules, an odd
bloom seen from space, a mothers death,
fishing, snow, and an ode to a nose, to
embrace the vagaries of memory and the
mysteries of time and the universe, in poems that continually seduce and surprise.
Imagine a book of poems catching fire
in the afternoon, and you will know this
book of marvels, this marvel of a book.
Ronald Wallace, author, For Dear Life
In rich and heartbreaking lines, Welch
gives meaning to our designscubist,
elliptical, often erotic. Theres beauty in
wanting more / time to be young, to sing
and seize it in a photograph or / music
video before it goes from us.Sandra
Alcosser, Except by Nature
poems by Adam Giannelli

2016 Iowa Poetry Prize
adam giannelli
This extraordinary and sobering debut begins with a literal stutter

Since I couldnt say tomorrow / I said Wednesday. In trade for this
impediment, AdamGiannelli finds that, in poetry, what cant be said
gives way to what mustbe said.Craig Morgan Teicher, judge, Iowa
Poetry Prize
TREMULOUS HINGE
Tremulous Hinge
TREMULOUS HINGE
adam giannelli
Rain intermits, bus windows steam up, loved ones suffer

from dementiain the constantly shifting, metaphoric world of
Tremulous Hinge, figures struggle to remain standing and speaking
against forces of gravity, time, and language. In these visually porous poems, boundaries waver and reconfigure along the rumbling
shoreline of Rockaway or during the intermediary hours that an Adam Giannelli talks to the worldto rain,
insomniac undergoes between darkness and dawn. Through a to insomnia, to the beloveds here and
series of self-portraits, elegies, and eros-tinged meditations, this vanished, to the stars themselves in their
hovering never subsides but offers, among the fragments, momen- old staring contest. Sink into this book
tary constellations: moths all swarming the / same light bulb.
as into solace and trouble. Am I lost / or
From the difficulties of stuttering to teetering attempts at love, have I been lifted? the poet asks. Answer:
from struggling to order a hamburger to tracing the deckled edge happily for us, both.Marianne Boruch,
of a hydrangea, these poems tumble and hum, revealing a hinge author, Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing
between word and world. From its initial turbulence to its final
surprising solace, this debut collection mesmerizes.
Rilke meets Roethke in the beveled mopAdam Giannellis poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New
England Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, Yale Review, and elsewhere. He
lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Excerpt from Stutter

since I couldnt say tomorrow
I said Wednesday
since I couldnt say Cleveland I said
Ohio
since I couldnt say hello
I hung up
since I couldnt say burger
a waitress finished
my sentence
a green-striped mint
dissolved
tops of a hydrangea, a basketball nets

punctured sieve, a rogue porcupine
(quilled, in dark makeup, like the bass
player / in an 80s band), all transformed,
in Giannellis scrupulous, sonically lavish
articulation, into emblems of the unspeakable mystery inside every syllable.
Inside us.Lisa Russ Spaar, author,
Orexia: Poems
In this stunning debut collection, the
observations of an often solitary speaker
explode in dazzling metaphors, unexpected juxtapositions, and challenging insights. Elegy becomes explicit as the book
progresses, met in the final sections by
poems of relationship. But the note of loss
remains: What weve lost swims / under
the surface of mirrorsand in these
extraordinary poems.Martha Collins,
author, Admit One: An American Scrapbook
on my tongue
from peacock to dove
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London in a Box
Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America
by Odai Johnson
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
Studies in Theatre History and Culture

Heather S. Nathans, series editor
London in a Box offers extraordinarily well-written, engaging prose

that tells compelling stories about early American and Atlantic theatre and the social worlds in which it traveled. This book recovers
and fleshes out important stories of early American theatres origins,
adding significantly to social histories of the revolutionary era. More
broadly, it enhances our sense of the Atlantic worlds transnational
networks and furthers the theoretical and methodological conversaBy making the wheelings and dealings
tion around cultural historys evidence and interpretation.
of David Douglass the center of his
Peter P. Reed, University of Mississippi
study, Johnson creates a history that enIf one went looking for the tipping point in the prelude to compasses not only the theatre and the
the American Revolution, it would not be the destruction of the tea politics of it in the colonial era, but also a
in Boston Harbor, or the blockade of Boston by British warships, history of sociability and the interactions
or even the gathering of the first Continental Congress; rather, it among public men during the era. Johnwas the Congresss decision in late October of 1774 to close the son writes with wit and grace; his narratheatres. In this remarkable feat of historical research, Odai John- tive voice is reminiscent itself at times of
son pieces together the surviving fragments of the story of the first an eighteenth-century novelist.Jason
professional theatre troupe based in the British North American Shaffer, United States Naval Academy
colonies. In doing so, he tells the story of how colonial elites came
to decide they would no longer style themselves British gentlemen,
but instead American citizens.
London in a Box chronicles the enterprise of David Douglass,
founder and manager of the American Theatre, from the 1750s
to the climactic 1770s. The ambitious Scotsmans business was
teaching provincial colonials to dress and behave as genteel British
subjects. Through the plays he staged, the scenery and costumes,
and the bearing of his actors, he displayed London fashion and
London manners. He counted among his patrons the most influential men in America, from British generals and governors to
local leaders, including the avid theatre-goers George Washington
and Thomas Jefferson. By 1774, Douglass operated a monopoly
of theatres in six colonies and the Anglophone Caribbean, from
Jamaica to Charleston and northward to New York City. (Boston
remained an impregnable redoubt against theatre.)
How he built this network of patrons and theatres and how it all
went up in flames as the revolution began is the subject of this witty
history. A treat for anyone interested in the world of the American
Revolution and an important study for historians of the period.
Odai Johnson teaches and directs the doctoral program in the
University of Washingtons school of drama. His books include
Rehearsing the Revolution: Radical Performance, Radical Politics in the
English Restoration and Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre:
Fiorellis Plaster. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Making Local Food Work

The Challenges and Opportunities
of Todays Small Farmers
by Brandi Janssen
Janssen has a great gift for making complex issues understandable to a wide range of readers. Making Local Food Work provides
the reader with very understandable stories that reveal the actual
experiences of farmers and all the parties they work with and relate
to without oversimplifying the issues.Frederick Kirschenmann,
farmer and president of the board of the Stone Barns Center for Food
and Agriculture

T

brAndi jansSeN
When it comes to local food, it takes more than knowing your

farmer. Brandi Janssen takes on some of the myths about how
the local food system works and what it needs to thrive. Advocates
claim that small biodiverse farms will fundamentally change farming, rural communities, and the American diet. For many, simply by
knowing our farmers we become champions of a new way of eating Through her account of small-scale farmthat revolutionizes our economy and society. But that argument ing in a large farm state, Janssen takes
ignores the fact that if local food is to succeed, it requires many of us beyond the binaries to see how local
the trappings of conventional food production, including proces- food and industrial agriculture intersect
in surprising ways. Writing with empathy,
sors, middle men, inspectors, and regulators.
By listening to and working alongside people trying to build a clarity, and a healthy dose of realism,
local food system in Iowa, Janssen uncovers the complex realities of Janssen shows us that theres a whole lot
making it work. Although the state is better known for its vast fields in between the farmer and the consumer
of conventionally grown corn and soybeans, it has long boasted in local food.Julie Guthman, author,
a robust network of small, diverse farms, community supported Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic
agriculture enterprises, and farmers markets. As she picks toma- Farming in California
toes, processes wheatgrass, and joins a parents committee trying
to buy local lettuce for a school lunch, Janssen asks how small Making Local Food Work really focuses on a
farmers and CSA owners deal with farmers market regulations, missing piece in much of the local foods
neighbors who spray pesticides on crops or lawns, and sanitary literature: the pieces along the value chain
regulations on meat processing and milk production. How can between the farmer and the consumer.
they meet the needs of large buyers like school districts? Who does Janssen also recognizes that conventional
the hard work of planting, weeding, harvesting, and processing? and local food systems share a lot in comIs local food production benefitting rural communities as much mon.Craig Chase, Leopold Center for
as advocates claim?
Sustainable Agriculture
In answering these questions, Janssen displays the pragmatism
and level-headedness one would expect of the heartland, much like
the farmers and processors profiled here. Its doable, she says, but
were going to have to do more than shop at our local farmers market to make it happen. This book is an ideal introduction to what
local food means today and what it might be tomorrow.
Brandi Janssen is a researcher and advocate for local food systems.
She is currently a clinical assistant professor in the department of
occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa
and the director of Iowas Center for Agricultural Safety and Health
(I-CASH). She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Family Farming, Accidents, and

Expertise in the Corn Belt, 19401975
by Derek S. Oden
Iowa and the Midwest Experience
William B. Friedricks, series editor
State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City
Harvest of Hazards
Farming has always been a dangerous occupation. In the Harvest of Hazards is original, with a
middle of the twentieth century, as farmers adopted a wide array strong contribution to the fields of agof new technologies, from tractors to pesticides and fertilizers, ricultural history, and relevance for the
the dangers became more acute. The economic pressures that fields of history of technology, labor,
agriculture faced in this period compounded the perils of these and postwar America.Kendra Smithpowerful new tools, as farmers struggled to stay profitable in the Howard, author, Pure and Modern Milk:
face of widespread consolidation.
An Environmental History since 1900
In this study of the farm safety movement in the Corn Belt, historian Derek Oden examines why agriculture was so dangerous and A useful, wide-ranging study that for the
why improvements were so difficult to achieve. Because farmers first time brings together the rather scatwere self-employed business owners whose employees were mainly tered literature about farm safety and
family members; because they lived far from aid such as hospitals discusses it in a historical context.
and fire stations; and because they had to manage such a diverse R. Douglas Hurt, author, Food and
array of new technologies, they could not easily adopt the work- Agriculture during the Civil War
place safety and public health reforms designed for factories and
urban settings. In response, beginning in the 1940s, farmers and
a new breed of farm safety specialists relied upon an increasingly
elaborate educational campaign to lessen injuries and illnesses
on the farm.
Several government, business, and nonprofit organizations
from the US Department of Agriculture to the National Safety
Council and 4-H and the Future Farmers of Americaworked
together to publicize both the dangers of farming and the information farmers needed to stay safe while driving tractors, applying anhydrous ammonia, or repairing machinery. By the 1960s,
however, the partnership began to break down, and by the 1970s
the safety movement became increasingly contested as professional and policy divisions emerged. This groundbreaking study
incorporates agriculture into the histories of occupational safety
and public health.
Derek S. Oden is currently an associate professor of history at Del
Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. He has published articles in
both the Annals of Iowa and Agricultural History. His article Selling
Safety: The Farm Safety Movements Emergence and Evolution
from 19401975 in Agricultural History won the Agricultural Societys Everett E. Edwards Award. He lives in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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american history / agriculture
10 university of iowa press . spring 7
Women in Agriculture
Professionalizing Rural Life in North America
and Europe, 18801965
edited by Linda M. Ambrose and Joan M. Jensen
WIN AOGRMICUELTUNRE
Professionalizing Rural
Life in North America
ed ite d by
Jensen
se and Joan
Linda Ambro
Women have always been skilled at feeding their families, and

historians have often studied the work of rural women on farms
and in their homes. However, the stories of women who worked
as agricultural researchers, producers, marketers, educators, and
community organizers have not been told until now. Taking readers
into the rural hinterlands of the rapidly urbanizing societies of the
United States, Canada, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, the essays in Women in Agriculture tell the stories of a cadre of professional
women who acted to bridge the growing rift between those who
grew food and those who only consumed it.
Women in Agriculture examines how rural womens expertise
was disseminated and how it was received. Through these essays, In Women in Agriculture, Joan Jensen and
readers meet subversively lunching ladies in Ontario and African Linda Ambrose have brought together a
American home demonstration agents in Arkansas. The rural soci- wealth of information about rural women
ologist Emily Hoag made a place for women at the US Department food professionals. Diverse in its scope
of Agriculture as well as in agricultural research. Canadian rural and ambitious in its reach, the book will
reformer Madge Watt, British radio broadcaster Mabel Webb, and be useful to a wide variety of scholars
US ethnobotanists Mary Warren English and Frances Densmore de- in fields as diverse as history, womens
veloped new ways to share and preserve rural womens knowledge. studies, and family and consumer sciThese and the other women profiled here updated and expanded ence. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Iowa
rural womens roles in shaping their communities and the broader State University
society. Their stories broaden and complicate the history of agriculture in North America and Western Europe.
Contributors to this volume investigate
Contributors
Linda M. Ambrose, Maggie Andrews, Cherisse Jones-Branch,
Joan M. Jensen, Amy L. McKinney, Anne L. Moore, Karen Sayer,
Margreet van der Burg, Nicola Verdon
Linda M. Ambrose is a professor of history at Laurentian University
in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her books include For Home and Country: The Centennial History of the Womens Institutes in Ontario. She lives
in Sudbury, Ontario. Joan M. Jensen is professor emerita at New
Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Her books include the Pulitzer Prizenominated Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic
Farm Women, 17501850. She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
an understudied topic: the role of professional women in modern Western agriculture. Their essays illuminate the partnership between women agriculturalists
and the home economists, broadcasters,
political activists, scholars, and other
professionals who worked alongside
them to improve food production and the
quality of rural life. Katherine Jellison,
author, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and
Technology, 19131963
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Susan Glaspells Poetics and

Politics of Rebellion
by Emeline Jouve
New York Public Library
A pioneer of American modern drama and founding member of

the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell (18761948) wrote plays
of a kind that Robert Brustein defines as a drama of revolt, an
expression of the dramatists discontent with the prevailing social,
political, and artistic order. Her works display a determination to
put an end to the alienating norms that, in her eyes and those of
her bohemian peers, were stifling American society. This determination both to denounce infringements on individual rights and
to reform American life through the theatre shapes the political InSusan Glaspells Poetics and Politics of
Rebellion,Emeline Jouvehas cleared
dimension of her drama of revolt.
Analyzing plays from the early Trifles (1916) through Springs Eter- away what Lawrence Langer once called
nal (1943) and the undated, incomplete Wings, author Emeline Glaspells old lace to reveal the steel
Jouve illustrates the way that Glaspells dramas addressed issues lining beneath the tender surfacethe
of sexism, the impact of World War I on American values, and the politics and, really, outrage at injustice
relationship between individuals and their communities, among and belief in democratic idealism that are
other concerns. Jouve argues that Glaspell turns the playhouse into at the center of Glaspells dramaturgy
a courthouse, putting the hypocrisy of American democracy on and her raison dtre as a writer.
trial. In staging rebels fighting for their rights in fictional worlds Drew Eisenhauer, Coventry University
that reflect her audiences extradiegetic reality, she explores the
strategies available to individuals to free themselves from oppression. Her works envisage a better future for both her fictive insurgents and her spectators, whom she encourages to consider which
modes of revolt are appropriate and effective for improving the
society they live in. The playwright defines social reform in terms
of collaboration, which she views as an alternative to the dominant,
alienating social and political structures. Not simply accusing
but proposing solutions in her plays, Glaspell wrote dramas that
enacted a positive revolt.
A must for students of Glaspell and her contemporaries, as well
as scholars of American theatre and literature of the first half of
the twentieth century.
Emeline Jouve is associate professor of English and American studies at Champollion University and Toulouse Jean-Jaurs University
in France. Coeditor or editor of three books, On Susan Glaspells
Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers: Centennial Essays, Interviews, and Adaptations, with Martha C. Carpentier, Unspeakable Acts: Murder by
Women, and Chronique judiciaire et fictionnalisation du procs, and is
also the editor of Ariels Corner: theatre for Miranda. She lives
in Toulouse, France.
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Traveler, There Is No Road

Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the
Decolonial Imagination in the Americas
by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
George Mason University Libraries
Traveler, There Is No Road offers a compelling and complex vision of

the decolonial imagination in the United States from 1931 to 1943
and beyond. By examining the ways in which the war of interpretation that accompanied the Spanish Civil War (19361939) circulated
through Spanish- and English-language theatre and performance
in the United States, Lisa Jackson-Schebetta demonstrates that
these works offered alternative histories that challenged the racial, gender, and national orthodoxies of modernity/coloniality.
She shows how performance in the United States used histories
of American empires, Islamic legacies, and African and Atlantic With considerable imaginative verve and
trades to fight against not only fascism and imperialism in the intellectual breadth, Traveler, There Is No
1930s and 1940s, but modernity/coloniality itself.
Road investigates several unheralded diThis book offers a unique perspective on 1930s theatre and mensions of both Spain and the Spanish
performance, encompassing the theatrical work of the Cuban, Civil War.Lloyd Hughes Davies,
Puerto Rican, and Spanish diasporas in the United States, as well Swansea University
as the better-known Anglophone communities. Jackson-Schebetta
situates well-known figures, such as Langston Hughes and Clif- This compelling text uses the frame of the
ford Odets, alongside lesser-known ones, such as Erasmo Vando, Spanish Civil War as a concrete site to genFranca de Armio, and Manuel Aparicio. The milicianas, female erate productive intersections between
soldiers of the Spanish Republic, stride on stage alongside the the discourse of the circum-Atlantic and
male fighters of the Lincoln Brigade. They and many others used the hemispheric. Traveler, There Is No Road
the multiple visions of Spain forged during the civil war to foment demonstrates the complexities of Spains
decolonial practices across the pasts, presents, and futures of the position in Europe and its crucial, lingerAmericas. Traveler conclusively demonstrates that theatre and per- ing influence in a political and cultural
formance scholars must position US performances within the understanding of the Americas.Spain
Americas writ broadly, and in doing so they must recognize the becomes a central site for a shifting uncentrality of the hemispheres longest-lived colonial power, Spain. derstandings of the legacies of European
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta is an assistant professor of theatre at the
University of Pittsburgh. She is also affiliated with the Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies Program, the Global Studies Center,
and the Center for Latin America Studies. She lives in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
colonialism.Jon D. Rossini, University

of California, Davis
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Writing Not Writing

Poetry, Crisis, and Responsibility
by Tom Fisher
Contemporary North American Poetry Series
Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, and Adalaide Morris, series editors
The poet George Oppen comments, There are situations which

cannot honorably [be] met by art, and surely no one need fiddle
precisely at the moment that the house next door is burning. To
write poetry under such circumstances, he continues, would be
a treason to ones neighbor. Committing himself, then, to more
direct and conventional forms of response and responsibility, Oppen leaves poetry behind for twenty-five years. The disasters of
the 1930s, for Oppen, put poetry into a fundamental question that
could not be resolved or overcome. Yet if crisis is continual, then
poetry is always turning away from the neighbor in need, always
an irresponsible response in a world persistently falling apart.
Writing Not Writing both confirms this question into which crisis
puts poetry and explores alternative modes of response and responsibility that poetry makes possible. Reading the silences of
Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and Bob Kaufman, the renunciation of Laura
Riding, and other more contemporary instances and modes of
poetic abnegation, Tom Fisher explores silence, refusal, and disavowal as political and ethical modes of response in a time of continuous crisis. Through a turning away from writing, these poets
offer strategies of refusal and departure that leave anagrammatical
hollows behind, activating the negational capacities of writing
and aesthetics to disrupt the empire of sense, speech, and agency.
Fishers work is both an engaging and detailed analysis of four
individual poets who left poetry behind and a theoretically provocative exploration of the political and ethical possibilities of
silence, not-doing, and disavowal. In lucid but nuanced terms,
Fisher makes the case that, from at least modernism forward, poetry is marked by refusals of speech and sense in order to open possibilities of response outside conventional forms of responsibility.
Tom Fisher is associate professor of English at Portland State University. He is the author of two books of poetry, Convivium (with
Jessica Jackson Hutchins) and Sorsere. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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poetics / literary criticism
Whitmans Drift
Imagining Literary Distribution
by Matt Cohen
The Iowa Whitman Series
Ed Folsom, series editor
The American nineteenth century witnessed a media explosion Showing real mastery over the fields of
unprecedented in human history. New communications technolo- Whitman studies, book history, and media
gies seemed to be everywhere, offering opportunities and threats studies, Cohen goes looking for Whitman
that seem powerfully familiar to us as we experience todays digital in places that we may not think to find
revolution. Walt Whitmans poetry reveled in the potentials of his him, and along the way he develops a
time: See, the many-cylinderd steam printing-press, he wrote. fascinating methodological framework
See, the electric telegraph, stretching across the Continent, from (the drift of distribution and reception) for
the Western Sea to Manhattan.
helping us to understand how he charted
Still, as the budding poet learned, books neither sell themselves his journey.Edward Whitley, Lehigh
nor move themselves: without an efficient set of connections to get University
books to readers, the democratic, media-saturated future Whitman
imagined would have remained warehoused. Whitmans works Whitmans Drift is a theoretically sophistisometimes ran through the many-cylinderd steam printing- cated, practically adept work that revitalpress and were carried in bulk on the strong and quick loco- izes Whitman as a critical subject no less
motive. Yet during his career, his publications did not follow a fit for the multicultural digital age than for
progressive path toward mass production and distribution. Even the age of print. This is the most powerat the end of his life in the 1890s, as his fame was growing, the poet ful, original new book on Whitman I have
was selling copies of his latest works by hand to visitors at his small seen in a long time.Ezra Greenspan,
house in Camden, New Jersey. Mass media and centralization were Southern Methodist University
only two parts of the rich media world that Whitman embraced.
Whitmans Drift asks how the many options for distributing books
and newspapers shaped the way writers wrote and readers read.
Writers like Whitman spoke to the imagination inspired by media
transformations by calling attention to connectedness, to how
literature not only moves us emotionally, but moves around in the
world among people and places. Studying that literature and how it
circulated can help us understand not just how to read Whitmans
works and times, but how to understand what is happening to our
imaginations now, in the midst of the twenty-first century media
explosion.
Matt Cohen teaches in the department of English at the University
of Texas at Austin. A contributing editor at the Walt Whitman Archive,
he is also the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in
Early New England. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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The Portrait and the Book

The Invention of the Illustrated Book in Early America
by Megan Walsh
Countering a long-held assumption that the early national period

was one of graphic poverty, a low point from which to measure
the dramatic rise of illustrated books in the middle decades of the
nineteenth century, Walsh taps a diverse archive of verbal and visual
materials in order to generate a new perspective on the imaginations
of early Americans.Eric Slauter, University of Chicago
American Antiquarian Society
Impressions: Studies in the Art, Culture, and Future of Books

Matthew P. Brown, series editor
In the nineteenth century, new image-making methods

like steel engraving and lithography caused a surge in the publication of illustrated books in the United States. Yet even before
the widespread use of these technologies, Americans had already In this elegantly conceived book,
established the illustrated book format as central to the nations MeganWalsh argues that illustration conliterary culture. In The Portrait and the Book, Megan Walsh argues stitutes a crucial paratext in the literature
that colonial-era author portraits, such as Benjamin Franklins of the earlyrepublic, influencing early
and Phillis Wheatleys frontispieces; political portraits that cir- American writing asmuch, and someculated during the debates over the Constitution, such as those of times more, by its absence than by its
the Founders by Charles Willson Peale; and portraits of beloved presence.The Portrait and the Bookshows
fictional characters in the 1790s, such as those of Samuel Richard- howimages undergird American literature
sons heroine Pamela, shaped readers conceptions of American in surprising and surprisingly earlyways,
literature.
before lithography, daguerreotypes,
Illustrations played a key role in American literary culture despite andphotography.Patricia Crain,
the fact that there was little demand for books by American writers. author, Reading Children: Literacy, Property,
Indeed, most of the illustrated books bought, sold, and shared by and the Dilemmas of Childhood in NineteenthAmericans were either imported British works or reprinted versions Century America
of those imported editions. As a result, in addition to embellishing books, illustrations provided readers with crucial information
about the countrys status as a former colony.
Through an examination of readers portrait-collecting habits, writers employment of ekphrasis, printers efforts to secure
American-made illustrations for periodicals, and engravers reproductions of British book illustrations, Walsh uncovers in late
eighteenth-century America a dynamic but forgotten visual culture
that was inextricably tied to the printing industry and to the early
US literary imagination.
Megan Walsh is associate professor of English at St. Bonaventure
University. She lives in Olean, New York.
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