14 Tractors

In 14 Tractors, Gerald Hill’s latest poetry collection, tractors pull versions of story, poetic form, landscape, light, and family history, offering themselves as vehicles for looking and remembering. Accompanying Shelley Sopher’s visual material, Hill’s poems ride tractors to the edge of personal and cultural fields. Hop aboard (safely, please) and see tractors—see from tractors—in this new light.

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reviews

"The artful arrangement of found writing is what makes 14 Tractors a worthwhile read ... We need more writing like this, and more writers (if not poets) like Gerald Hill." —Alberta Views 

"... this book is an interesting collection of thoughts and images from the world of tractors and those who use them ... for anyone who had spent time around tractors there will be experiences that resonate" —Vintage Tractor

"Playful and poignant, these poems drive through fields of story, history, and myth, cultivating a new way of seeing and a new way of knowing." —Prairie Books Now

"...an eccentric, idiosyncratic, and entirely loving tribute to a man and a community, dressed up as a curious book about tractors ... a triumph of design as well as poetics" —Saskatoon StarPhoenix

awards

> 2009 Winner of the Saskatchewan Book Awards

links

> Gerald Hill's website and blog