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Fiction. "RINGING IN THE WILDERNESS: SELECTIONS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY ANVIL makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the generation of activists that grew up during the civil rights, student, anti-war and women's movements in the Midwest. I know of no other work which captures the regional voices of writers and artists that identified with these movements and were part of the struggle to envision a new world" -Sal Salerno, Metropolitan State University, author of 'Red November, Black November.'
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| The Story of the Anvil | 19 | |
| Hammering it Out - The First Thirty Issues | 31 | |
| Minnesota's Wayward Prophet | 49 | |
| No! | 55 | |
| Militant Minnesota Artists | 67 | |
| The Union that Kept the Faith | 73 | |
| A Homecoming for Odysseus | 81 | |
| In Vietnam Mai Is the Name of a Flower | 85 | |
| The Enemy | 89 | |
| Talking with Elizabeth McAlister | 99 | |
| Future of the Freeze | 103 | |
| Draft Resistance in the Midwest | 107 | |
| Korean Adoption | 111 | |
| Something Flies Out of the Cells | 114 | |
| The Georgeville Experience | 117 | |
| Trespasser | 125 | |
| Homesteading in the North Woods | 137 | |
| Reviving a Country Store | 141 | |
| More or Less | 147 | |
| Outhouse Poem No. 1 | 151 | |
| Now I Know Grouse | 152 | |
| The Drowning | 153 | |
| Wild West | 154 | |
| Blood Plasma Center | 155 | |
| The Man Selling Pencils Outside the B. Dalton Bookstore | 157 | |
| The People's Bakery | 163 | |
| How the Old Co-ops Went Wrong | 169 | |
| Co-op Crisis in the North Country | 185 | |
| Last Harvest | 199 | |
| The Farm Bell Tolls | 217 | |
| The Resurgence of Populism | 223 | |
| Reflections on Mercury Vapor Light | 235 | |
| Who Owns 'Organic'? | 239 | |
| Father | 244 | |
| Struggle at Wounded Knee | 249 | |
| A Mouthful of Grass | 259 | |
| Not "Chippewa," Not "Ojibway" ... Anishinabe | 269 | |
| Cultural Confessions | 273 | |
| The White Bubble | 280 | |
| Letter from a Welfare Mother | 285 | |
| Encounter | 289 | |
| Grandma Is Dancing | 295 | |
| North Country Woman in Action | 301 | |
| Women's Peace Presence | 305 | |
| She Grows Older | 309 | |
| Mammogram | 311 | |
| Life in Portcullis County | 312 | |
| Old Woman | 314 | |
| Mississippi River Revival | 319 | |
| Brother Wolf | 331 | |
| Rising From the Earth | 343 | |
| Emerging Green Culture | 349 | |
| Learning the Names | 358 | |
| Lying in Bed, Listening to Snowmobiles on Cottonwood Lake | 359 | |
| This Wet Spring | 360 | |
| Sitting Beside Bear Creek | 362 | |
| It Might be Spring | 363 | |
| Hammering It Out - The Closing Years | 365 | |
| Author Notes | 376 |
Overview
Fiction. "RINGING IN THE WILDERNESS: SELECTIONS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY ANVIL makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the generation of activists that grew up during the civil rights, student, anti-war and women's movements in the Midwest. I know of no other work which captures the regional voices of writers and artists that identified with these movements and were part of the struggle to envision a new world" -Sal Salerno, Metropolitan State University, author ...