In this brilliantly crafted essay collection, Tiffany Eberle Kriner weaves together literary criticism, nature writing, and memoir to explore what grows when we plant texts in the landscapes of our lives.
Connecting culture, ecology, faith, and literature, In Thought, Word, and Seed invites readers to cultivate fruitful conversations between literature and the environments in which they live..
Along the way she cultivates an awareness of interdependence and mercy as they appear in the particulars of her rooted life.
She weaves reflections into the warp and woof of her life: coaxing growth from neglected land, embracing the frustrations and joys of family life, reckoning with racism in a small town.
Eliot, William Langland, and others.
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from her sixty acres in northern Illinois, Kriner reads James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, T.
Chesnutt, where her close readings of their works intersect with her efforts to create a just and sustainable community farm.
In this landscape, she meets Virgil and Charles W.
Industrial agriculture practices had depleted the fields, leaving them littered with the detritus of consumerism and rural poverty--plastic deck chairs, bags of diapers, endless empty cans of Monster Energy Drink.
The first time Tiffany Eberle Kriner walked the parcel of land that would become Root and Sky Farm its primary crop seemed to be chaos.
In this brilliantly crafted essay collection, Tiffany Eberle Kriner weaves together literary criticism, nature writing, and memoir to explore what grows when we plant texts in the landscapes of our lives
