Adam's Mark: Writings from the Ox-House
Burke, VT: Plowboy Press, 2014. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Item #9791
Octavo. [8], 52, [4] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 100 numbered copies. Signed by Shipley, Simpson, and the printer, Andrew Miller-Brown. As issued, in linen over boards, printed in black and red with an illustration by Miller-Brown. A fine copy.
A beautiful collection by Shipley whose prose and poetry attempt to reconcile the farming life with the writing life. This book was selected as a Boston Globe Best New England Book of 2014. Tom Slayton, editor-emeritus of Vermont Life Magazine writes: "Words and work are melded in a series of essays that are brief, captivating and profound, with references that range from Japanese Haiku to Seamus Heaney, and from summertime haying to mid-winter manure piles." And he calls Shipley "one of Vermont's very best emerging writers."
Price: $250.00