The Porcine Canticles in Bloomington, MN

ou can write about pigs,” is the advice David Lee heard from John, a wise and unlettered pig farmer in Utah. And write Lee did, while creating a collection of narratives and epic tales about the rural Southwest. Using the direct and uncompromising impact of common talk,
Porcine Canticles
a lyrical tribute to the indomitability of the human heart, a rare book of poems that “reads like a good novel.”—
Western American Literature