Ancestral
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Daniel Smith's Ancestral draws from the thirty years he farmed his family's dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. With poetry grounded in the rural Midwest, Ancestral explores a family's deep attachment to the land, the physical work of farming and the emotional disruption one endures when such a life is no longer sustainable. These poems provide a powerful depiction of the changes impacting agriculture and our rural communities.
Daniel Smith
Daniel Smith is a psychotherapist and the author of Muses, Madmen, and Prophets and Monkey Mind. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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