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Article: William Barillas. The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland.
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William Barillas. The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. vii + 258pp. $39.95 cloth.
As the winner of the Midwestern Studies Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and Ohio University Press, The Midwestern Pastoral is at once a thorough scholarly introduction to the idea of Midwestern pastoralism and an examination of a range of signatory figures, including Willa Cather, Aldo Leopold, Theodore Roethke, James Wright, Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser, and Jane Smiley, all of whose poetry and prose help define and further this particular tradition.