Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness Complete Construction Poems in A Story of

Poems in A Story of the World Before the Fence have received an International Publication Award from the Atlanta Review

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David Stuart Davies

A well-known American commentator in Germany

Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness Complete Construction Poems in A Story ofIt's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today's most sophisticated batteries, suggesting that transportation is equally imperiled. And there's another, even more dire limitation that is looming: at current rates of erosion, the world's topsoil will be gone in sixty