{"product_id":"johnny-appleseed-the-slice-and-times-of-john-chapman-paperback","title":"Johnny Appleseed: The Slice and Times of John Chapman - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNominated for a Rhysling Award and five Pushcart Prizes, \u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Clark's\u003c\/strong\u003epoems, essays, and short stories have been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. \u003cem\u003eThe Midwest Quarterly, Women's Studies Quarterly, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWindhover\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eConcho River Review, Ecotone, Nimrod, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Flyway\u003c\/em\u003e are some of the journals that have made a home for her writings. Her short story published in \u003cem\u003eFiction Fix\u003c\/em\u003e received their Editor's Choice Award and her play, \"Father's Not There,\" was featured at the U.S. National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. ​\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The story is part of our American landscape: Johnny Appleseed going from field to field, town to town, planting his seeds, redeeming the misnomered forbidden fruit. Historians have recorded the life of Johnny A, real name John Chapman. But Jennifer Clark has searched the archives of the soul of this enigmatic sower of the fruit that brings tart sweetness to the mutability of autumn. In lyric poems created with that most extraordinarily difficult of approaches, the plainsong, Clark resurrects the man, his world, his benevolent eccentricity. She gives us something much more mysterious than the legend: she gives us the real. As we accompany \u003cem\u003ethe \u003c\/em\u003eJohn Chapman we consider what it means to give without ever knowing the result. And we thank Jennifer Clark for doing the same.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e --Jack Ridl, author of \u003cem\u003ePracticing to Walk Like a Heron\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the ForeWord Reviews' 2013 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"From a couple of poems, I watched this book grow into the amazingly informed text it is now. Clark's research is thorough, and the poems are beautiful and evocative. It's like two books in one: a book of poetry that encompasses America's past through the vehicle of Johnny Appleseed. As he moves through the country sowing his seeds, the American landscape, too, evolves, warts and all. The lives of pioneers and settlers, the displacement of Native Americans, slavery, the Pony Express right up to the internet. It's such an accomplishment. And the end notes are as entertaining as the poetry. lf history had been taught like this, I would have come to it much earlier.\"\u003cbr\u003e ​\u003cbr\u003e --Elizabeth Kerlikowske, author of \u003cem\u003eDominant Hand \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eand the\u003c\/em\u003e chapbook, \u003cem\u003eLast Hula, \u003c\/em\u003e winner of the 2013 Standing Rock Chapbook Competition\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 158\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 19, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726460645683,"sku":"9780960093168","price":26.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/N0wxelRiUlQ4dkNLWGhvQ01aL1pYdz09.webp?v=1763737288","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/johnny-appleseed-the-slice-and-times-of-john-chapman-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}