A chapbook of poetry produced in connection with Minnesota's tour of "Key Ingredients: America by Food," a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition. The poems "explore the labor, intimacy, traditions, and memories associated with the preparing and sharing of foods"--P. [3].

Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land, to animals, to refugees, to the people of distant countries, and to one another. Drawing on memories of his childhood on a dairy farm in Illinois, Austin Smith explores the beauty and cruelty of rural life, challenging the idea that the American Midwest is mere "flyover country," a place that deserves passing over. At the same time, the collection suggests...