{"product_id":"hags-on-tractors-9781956285789","title":"Hags on Tractors","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these memoir-textured poems, Penny Johnson puts us in the driver's seat-of a tractor that is-and shows us what it means to be a mature, rural woman grappling with the land and its seasonal weather changes, as well as the unique challenge of leading this life amidst a male-dominated field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---------------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Hags on Tractors, Penny Johnson's poems enter the land and finger the coloring change of beige mushroom, vermillion tomatoes, evergreen rosemary, fat-thumbed blackberries, magenta holly hocks in her deeply porous study under the unforgiving sky. She ingests this place, [a]s if land can hold still all it burns, buries and brings alive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Beatrix Gates, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Burning Key: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems (1973-2023)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Johnson thumbs her nose at tradition, engaging us through a structure which floats and spins and turns in on itself....her poems bring the rural scene to life with all its sights, smells, sounds, tastes and challenges\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Susan Blair, editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Shrub-Steppe Poetry Journal, \u003c\/em\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eA Howling\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWhat Remains of a Life\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The power of these poems is due to the simple fact that Johnson has invented a language using English words that resembles to great effect the nature of trauma, disassociation, sexuality, cars, boys, horses.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Michael Kline, author of \u003cem\u003eWhen I Was a Twin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poetry Box\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781956285789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d","brand":"Penny Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45187046867125,"sku":"9781956285789","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4eca7d27-922e-4120-9939-deae57f65961.jpg?v=1742271192","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hags-on-tractors-9781956285789","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}