in Terrain.org
Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year (Hub City Press, 2022) is Arwen Donahue’s written and illustrated account of a year on the Kentucky farm where she lives with her husband and daughter. The book’s first page sets up some of the thematic threads followed throughout the book: the way life “interrupts” art-making, Donahue’s sense of distance from her own life as a farmer in rural Kentucky, and the way this distance from—or resistance to—the work of the farm is “cured,” in a way, by the work itself. FOR MORE
