The Tillable Land

" The Tillable Land  is a heart-racing, heart-breaking lyric, a liberating coming of age for our stunted relationship to all that feeds us. I am changed by this book."-Rebecca Gayle Howell, Author of  American Purgatory  and  Render/An Apocalypse  and Poetry Editor,  Oxford American "Melva Sue Priddy's The Tillable Land is a double helix of a book. One strand is a story about a family's life-dairy farming and growing tobacco, and also food for th