Pey enjoys geocaching and keeping their cat
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Randall speaks from his heart
Born in Shanghai and confined to a farm during the Cultural Revolution
Pastoral, 1994 Author|Issa Musharbash Pey enjoys geocaching and keepingJoe Wilkins' Pastoral, 1994 calls compellingly into the lyric quietness, labor, and rituals of the rural West and its communities, bringing readers close to the earth, to the ditches, to the "flowery stink of alfalfa hot breath of wheat." Enfolding its reader in a living, breathing landscape, this collection tenderly approaches the livesof humans, of sheep, of cottonwood, and barn owlthat collide and entangle with each other. With a gentle yet