Heart of the Prairie is both a necessary call to save a fragile ecosystem, as well as a reminder that poetry can become a type of lyrical memoir. His work captures the daily beauty and hardship of ranching life from the frost of a windless day, to watching a gopher, to finding meadowlarks frozen in a snowbank, to the hard work of having to shoot a sickly bull-'I find myself saying "I'm sorry,"/ as I touch off the rounds."' Told with a hawk's clear...
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