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WIRES OVER THE HOMEPLACE is a late eighteenth-century Pennsylvania frontier of ancestors clearing fields across America to raise young families and new generations. It's also a coming-of-age story for a postmodernist computer programmer retiree in the early twenty-first century writing his second book of poetry. Somewhere it may contain a story snatched from your own heart. WIRES happens in places that once were prairies, wheat fields, ball fields, hospital waiting rooms, and schools-and occupied by jack rabbits, snakes, and rusted tractors in the fields. The only constant may be the dark birds perched on the wires. The cinematography is Dickeyville, Wisconsin; Iowa; Wichita; Oklahoma; and Omaha. At this very minute, or perhaps the moment you start to read, the book means what it says, which is a Great Plains value. In the book though, much will happen and meaning can't always be rigidly predicted and controlled. You'll drive the I-80 Interstate through Iowa and buy nails or a bucket of paint in an…
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- Title Wires Over the Homeplace
- Author Paul Dickey
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 88
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pinyon Publishing
- Date 9/2/2013
- ISBN 9781936671205 / 1936671204
- Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.21 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.53 cm)
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