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Dirt

Back to the Land in Poetry

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Dirt

By: Errol Hess
Narrated by: Gavin Shapiro
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A memoir in verse Errol Hess, the son of a West Virginia factory worker, moved 300 miles south in the early 1970s to begin farming with his new wife. Together, they raised tobacco (to sell), vegetables (to eat), and a crop of healthy children.

Like many members of the back-to-the-land movement, the family fled the poverty of small-holding and returned to town a dozen years later. But their lives and the farms soil were both left a little richer for their time spent listening to the land.

©2016 Errol Hess (P)2025 Errol Hess
Poetry United States World Literature West Virginia Tobacco
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