About this title: For nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their own food, carried water by hand, and read by the light of kerosene lamps. They considered themselves part of the "back to the land" movement, but their choice to live off the grid was neither statement nor protest: they simply had built their house too far from the road and could not afford to bring in power lines. Over the years, they settled in to a life that centered on what Thoreau called "the essential facts." In this graceful meditation, ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of New England
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781584656074ISBN:1584656077
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ Pr of New England
Date Published: 2008-04-30
ISBN-13:9781584657040ISBN:1584657049
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of New England
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781584656074ISBN:1584656077
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of New England, Hanover, NH
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781584656074ISBN:1584656077
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"I heard Baron read a few pages of this last summer and I was sold. It meanders quite a bit, but this is what I like about musing poets. This book feels like drinking wine over several nights by the fire while someone tells you stories about an earlier life. I like how the poetry is woven into the caning, chopping of wood and gossip about the neighbors. Very Thoreau and Walden and Whitman. Very New England (Maine)."
"Excellent memoir of living off the grid intertwined with musings about poets and ideas. Its easy to notice that the author is a poet himself. The ideas in here resonated with me for a long time. I tried to read this book as slowly as possible. Much of it read like poetry I felt and I could read the odd sentence over and over. Right up there with Frost, Emerson and Whitman! Bravo."
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