Rooted in a particular place, the South and especially the Appalachian hills; in a long time, with poems dating from as early as 1932 and as late as 1981; and in the wide experience of a man who has been a farmer, lineman, preacher, organizer, deck hand, professor, and journalist. Land of Plenty is about America over the last half a century. It is about miners, freedom, racism, sharecroppers, family, love, loss, the South, laughter, labor, hunger, and heroism...Constance Adams West\u27s spare illustrations make Land of Plenty still more beautiful. -Dave Roediger, Dept. of History, Northwestern U.https://digitalcommons.lmunet.edu/crfb/1000/thumbnail.jp
