Daniel Smith \'s Ancestral draws from the thirty years he farmed his family\'s dairy farm in northwestern Illinois.
These poems provide a powerful depiction of the changes impacting agriculture and our rural communities..
With poetry grounded in the rural Midwest, Ancestral explores a family\'s deep attachment to the land, the physical work of farming and the emotional disruption one endures when such a life is no longer sustainable.
Daniel Smith \'s Ancestral draws from the thirty years he farmed his family\'s dairy farm in northwestern Illinois