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...skies that have lowered all afternoon are threatening to pour. One young farmer near me points toward the doggers and says, "They may not get to finish this." His partner looks heavenward, grinning in the drizzle, and says, "I need a good rain a lot more'n I need to watch a dance...
...style of T.S. Eliot. Glossy shoes. Handkerchief triangulated in the jacket pocket. Fingers exquisitely laced for the camera. Now, at 75, with over 50 years of poetry behind him-not to mention, a good deal of fiction, including All the King's Men-"Red" Warren looks like a farmer...
Though the Agrarians mostly remained farmers of the typewriter in real life, on paper they kept insisting that "the culture of the soil is the best and most sensitive of vocations." Tate was one of the few to own, briefly, a genuine farm, Ben's Folly, honestly named for the brother who financed it. A hired hand delivered the final word on Farmer Tate: "Mr. Tate, he ain't much of a hand with...
...jarring, almost violent experience. There are no suburbs. One minute you are driving past huge bank buildings and small noodle stands and city-style corrugated steel-vegetable markets and the next minute you look out the window and there is only the emerald green of rice paddies, a farmer leveling a flooded field with a pole pulled horizontally behind...
...that we cannot take pictures--the presence of pillboxes and military installations along the shore prevents it. Originally built by the Japanese during, the occupation period, such installations are common along the whole shore of Taiwan. Many have been abandoned but none destroyed; once in a while an enterprising farmer will use one to house his chickens or to store his grain...