 | Out of This World: A Journey of Healing Subjects: Amish -- Iowa -- Social life and customs; Swander Mary -- Homes and haunts -- Iowa; Swander Mary -- Health; Healing -- United States -- Case studies; Alternative medicine -- United States -- Case studies; Iowa -- Social life and customs; Suffering from "environmental illness," poet Swander tells of her move to an Amish settlement where she grew her own food and discovered a spiritual tie to the land. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved Mary Swander is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. A regular commentator on Iowa Public Radio, she is the author of, among others, The Desert Pilgrim , Heaven-and-Earth House , Driving the Body Back (Iowa paperback, 1998), and Parsnips in the Snow (with Jane Staw, Iowa, 1990), and editor of The Healing Circle: Authors on Recovery from Illness , Bloom and Blossom , and Land of the Fragile Giants (with Cornelia Mutel, Iowa, 1994). |
