Voices from the Farm by Rupert Fike
Forty years ago, at the height of the counterculture movement, several hundred hippies drove their school buses into southern Tennessee and founded one of America's largest, modern day intentional communities, The Farm. In its hey-day, the community was home to over 1,500 optimistic young people and the young at heart.Their purpose for coming together was to support each other in a quest for personal growth and an alternative lifestyle that could help raise the standard of living for impoverished people around the world.
The Farm remains a vibrant working environment for change. Why has it lasted so long? Discover the answers as members past and present become the voices for some of their more memorable experiences. This revised edition also includes many never-before published classic images from The Farm's early years.
Rupert Fike's work has been published in Rosebud, The Georgetown Review, storySouth, Borderlands, Texas Review of Poetry, The Cumberland Review, The Cortland Review, Natural Bridge (University of Missouri at St Louis), Atlanta Review, Snake Nation Review, Backwards City Review, FutureCycle, Dark Sky Magazine, A Celebration of Southern Poets (Kennesaw University Press) and others. He has been nominated for a Pushcart prize in poetry (Java Monkey Speaks) and short fiction (Rosebud). A poem of his is inscribed in a downtown Atlanta plaza, and he has had several one act plays produced by the Alliance Theatre Interns for Theatre Emory. His non-fiction book, Voices from the Farm, edited accounts of life on this country's largest spiritual community, The Farm, is now available in paperback. Lotus Buffet, his first poetry collection, was a finalist in the Brick Road Poetry Contest 2010. Rupert Fike reads his poems and conducts workshops at high schools and middle schools in the Atlanta area. He lives with his wife, Kathy, in Clarkston, Georgia not far from their daughters and grandchildren. Kathy and Rupert spent eight years on The Farm, a spiritual community in middle Tennessee which they helped found in 1971 after several years in the bay area. He is working on a book of poems based on The Farm experience.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781570672880 |
| ISBN 10 | 1570672881 |
| Title | Voices from the Farm |
| Author | Rupert Fike |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Book Publishing Company |
| Year published | 2012-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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