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Kansas-born Grace Stone Coates was a young teacher in Butte, Montana when she married Henderson Coates in 1910. They moved to the fledgling town of Martinsdale, where Henderson and his brother opened a general store. Coates found another life in her writing. Coates immersed herself in poetry, short stories, and letters. She published two books of poetry and an acclaimed novel, Black Cherries. She corresponded with many celebrated authors, such as William Saroyan, Native American writer, Frank Bird Linderman, and Charles Russell art historian James Rankin, and many others. In a small town, a woman of quiet passion and keen intellect lived two lives, the ordinary and the brilliant.
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Grace Stone Coates of Martinsdale, Montana, was one of the most widely published poets of the American West during the first decades of the twentieth century. Food of Gods and Starvelings contains the two collections of poems Coates published during her lifetime, plus more than seventy uncollected poems drawn from literary journals and the poet's notebooks.
Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").
Recently discovered after being lost for nearly fifty years, this memoir of a Montana childhood at the turn of the century invites readers into the life of a Western horse ranch.
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Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."
In this series of linked stories the child narrator, Veve, cannot fathom all the mysteries of her family?s life together, but by watching and listening she pieces together a painful past. Played out against the backdrop of rural hardship and deprivation on the family?s Kansas farm, the secret in her father?s previous life eventually explains his harsh treatment of the three older children and her mother?s bitterness over his countless misunderstandings and slights. ΓΈ When originally published in 1931, a reviewer of Black Cherries commented that there is ?a sharpness about all impressions in the book, a keenness of sensuous and spiritual apprehension that leaves brilliant after-images with t...
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