The Middle of the World reflects Norris’s strong gifts as a storyteller and poet of place. The locales are New York City, where she formerly lived, and South Dakota west of the Missouri River, where she is business manager of a family farm that raises wheat, sunflowers, and Hereford cattle. \u201cThe poems are about these places,\u201d she writes, \u201cand the more or less imagined lives in them: and also about family and inheritance; it was inheritance that moved me to South Dakota. Some of the poems are about faith: my own ideas as well as the traditional religious faith that is a thread running through my family history, both enhancing lives and running them.\u201d
- ISBN10 082295334X
- ISBN13 9780822953340
- Publish Date 15 December 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 November 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English