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Book SynopsisEditor Zachary Michael Jack reintroduces contemporary agrarian writers, poets of place, and eco-critics to Sigmund's essential oeuvre in a jam-packed collection featuring eight Sigmund short stories, more than fifty poems, and a complete one-act play.
Trade ReviewSomeday when historians of the future cast about in newspapers and magazines for material to enable them to reconstruct ways of life in the Middle West…some one may exhume Sigmund's books…and great will be the joy of the discoverer. -- Newberry Prize-wining author, Charles Finger (1935)
The publication of The Plowman Sings should provide those interested in the making of literary history with ample food for thought. * State Historical Society Of Iowa, Fall 2009 *
It is poetry full of sights and sounds, the smells and colors of the field and the woodland. There are in it that sense of freshness and surprise, that breath of field folk and orchard trees that can only be given back in poetry by one who has learned their names and all their secrets.
Table of ContentsPart 1 I. Fiction Chapter 2 From Wapsipinicon Tales (Prairie Publishing Company, 1927) Chapter 3 From Merged Blood (Maizeland Press, 1929) Chapter 4 From The Ridge Road, 1930 (Prairie Publishing Company, 1930) Chapter 5 From The Least of These, 1935 (Prairie Press, 1935) Part 6 II. Poetry Chapter 7 From Frescoes (B.J. Brimmer Company, 1922) Chapter 8 From Pinions (James T. White & Co., 1923) Chapter 9 From Land o' Maize Folk (James T. White & Co., 1924) Chapter 10 From Drowsy Ones (Prairie Publishing Company, 1925) Chapter 11 From The Ridge Road (Prairie Publishing Company, 1930) Chapter 12 From Burroak and Sumac (Cornell College, 1936) Chapter 13 From Heron at Sunset (Cornell College, 1938) Chapter 14 From The Hawk That Haunts the Sky (Coe College, 1937) Part 15 III. Drama Chapter 16 Folk Stuff
