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Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes
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Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes Paperback - 2008

by Janet Kauffman

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Essays and stories that contemplate the exploitation of Michigan's agricultural landscape by modern factory farms.

Trespassing is composed in equal amounts of short fiction and essays that illustrate the impact of modern factory farms--confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs)--on a rural Michigan community. Michigan author Janet Kauffman debunks the myth of the idyllic "clip art" farm of decades past by giving readers a close-up look at mega-meat and mega-milk, the extreme amounts of animal waste and barren countryside CAFOs produce, and the people who live in the midst of this new rural landscape threatened by agricultural sprawl. Trespassing considers the consequences of violating nature's limits, giving readers a vivid impression of the irreversible damage that violation causes to our habitat.

The writings in Trespassing range from ground-level realism to hallucinatory surrealism, from mindful discussion to poetic incantation, from vehicles of outrage to portraits of grief. The rural landscape includes a range of characters, and Kauffman's stories and essays are populated with CAFO owners, immigrant workers, neighbors mired in pollution, greenhouse growers, environmental activists, water monitors, drain commissions, and agency officials. As a resident of rural Michigan and part of a farming family herself, Kauffman approaches the subject matter with a sensitive and informed eye. Her detailed writings take readers into this landscape of modern rural communities to experience the smells, sounds, and sights of a brutally changed world.

Those interested in environmental issues, as well as fellow Michiganders, and fans of creative fiction and nonfiction will appreciate this moving and informative collection.

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  • Title Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes
  • Author Janet Kauffman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wayne State University Press, Detroit
  • Publication date 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780814333747 / 0814333745
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.58 x 5.5 x 0.51 in (19.25 x 13.97 x 1.30 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Michigan, City and town life - Michigan
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007039291
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

Janet Kauffman is professor of English at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of three books of short stories, Characters on the Loose, Obscene Gestures for Women, and Places in the World a Woman Could Walk, which won the Rosenthal Award from the Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters; three novels in the trilogy Flesh Made Word: Collaborators, The Body in Four Parts, and Rot; and four collections of poems, including The Weather Book, which was an AWP Award Series Selection, and Five on Fiction.

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