The poems in A Brief History of the Midwest trace the trajectory of the middle of America from its colonization to the present day. Its author was born and raised on Shadeland Farm in Urbana, Illinois where the Grace family has farmed for five generations and currently resides in rural central Ohio. The Midwest is often portrayed as one of two opposing cliches, namely as a cultural desert peppered with dilapidated factories and barns in which " average"...
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