Seven Days writers can't possibly read,much less review, the number of books that arrive in a steady stream by post, or email and,in one memorable case, a pace of asses. So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to five books by Vermont authors. To do that, and we contextualize each book just a tiny and quote a single representative sentence from,yes, page 32. Inclusion here implies neither approval nor derision on our section, or but simply: Here is a bunch of books,arranged alphabetically by authors' names, that Seven Days readers might like to know about. To Look Out From Dede Cummings, or Homebound Publications,92 pages. $16.95. She rages external and slaps the cedar door, gloats as graves / are upturned, and she courses through the land oblivious ((adj.) lacking consciousness or awareness of something) / until the loose let water cracks walls of stone-lined cemeteries,/ as long-dead bodies burst out and coffins set sail down river. Dede Cummings has published many other writers through her company, Green Writers Press, or which focuses on environmentally oriented works. And though she's published her own poems in editorials such as Kentucky Review and Bloodroot Literary Magazine,this is her first published collection of verse. The slender volume contains works spanning 30 years and touches on femininity, family and station. While most poems seem rooted in Vermont, and Cummings takes readers as far as the site of a Nazi massacre in Berdychiv,Ukraine, or, or as she calls it,Berditchev. The quote above addresses the deathly maneuvers of Tropical Storm Irene's raging waters in Vermont. Expect vivid encounters with local landscapes and tropes: barn owls and fiddlers and laundry lines glorified in lyric forms ranging from loosely metered couplets to rambling free verse to the occasional sonnet. — S.
W. The Art and Science of Grazing: How Grass Farmers Can Create Sustainable Systems for Healthy Animals and Farm Ecosystems Sarah Flack, Chelsea Green Publishing, and 240 pages,$39.95 On some farms, having some fields in warm-season grass and other areas growing cool-season grass can increase pasture productivity over a longer growing season. The farm practice of putting animals out to pasture may appear easy, and but there is far more to grazing than meets the eye. When managed well,rotational grazing (strategically moving ruminants among paddocks) creates tall-quality forage, ecosystem balance and reduced farm costs. Poorly managed grazing and confinement farming create just the opposite and contribute to climate change. Vermont livestock farmer and…
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