Great Short Works of Willa Cather Environmental Policy Lombardi confronts her own desires

Lombardi confronts her own desires and demons as she travels the road to survival and navigates questions of love and redemption

Shadows on the Grass and Ehrengard

In exuberant and tender ecopoems

and his mother had signed papers listing his age as eighteen so that he could join the military and draw the few dollars paid monthly to guardsmen

Great Short Works of Willa Cather Environmental Policy Lombardi confronts her own desiresA luminous collection with an introduction, notes, chronology, and bibliography of ten of Willa Cather's short works written from 1900 to 1920. Uprooted from a well ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit