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The wood engravings in this collection are intended to be companion pieces to . . . the way he expresses what it is to be a farmer.\"","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781619027800","publication_date":"20160913","publisher":"Catapult","slug":"roots-to-the-earth","subtitle":"Poems and a Story","title":"Roots to the Earth"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"POE023030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Nature Poetry","score":0.7509,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE005010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"American Poetry","score":0.7247,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7245,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"POE023030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Nature Poetry","score":0.7509,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE005010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"American Poetry","score":0.7247,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7245,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"ART063000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Environmental & Land Art","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"NAT000000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Nature & the Outdoors","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"high","label":"Place Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Nature Poetry","score":0.7509,"slug":"nature-poetry"},{"label":"American Poetry","score":0.7247,"slug":"american-poetry"},{"label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7245,"slug":"place-poetry"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in poetry about farming and the experience of being a farmer"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Wendell Berry"],"book_id":"9781582430379","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781582430379.jpg?v=2e3de1e258602555","score":0.7745,"title":"The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781582430379"},{"authors":["Wendell Berry"],"book_id":"9781598536102","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781598536102.jpg?v=812a4e8db12e706e","score":0.7546,"title":"What I Stand On: the Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781598536102"},{"authors":["Wendell Berry"],"book_id":"9781619021525","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781619021525.jpg?v=5ce13f1e2ddc0d94","score":0.7422,"title":"New Collected Poems","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781619021525"},{"authors":["Wendell Berry"],"book_id":"9781619029422","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781619029422.jpg?v=01edb72fc0b6250e","score":0.7214,"title":"A Small Porch","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781619029422"},{"authors":["Wendell Berry"],"book_id":"9781619024366","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781619024366.jpg?v=548d0fe46e73b284","score":0.7063,"title":"This Day","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781619024366"},{"authors":["Lyanda Lynn Haupt"],"book_id":"9780316426497","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780316426497.jpg?v=fe9fa4680341db0e","score":0.7062,"title":"Rooted","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780316426497"},{"authors":["Wendell Berry"],"book_id":"9781640096394","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781640096394.jpg?v=9cfc2fbdf83e43e0","score":0.6893,"title":"Another Day","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781640096394"},{"authors":["Rose McLarney"],"book_id":"9780143133193","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780143133193.jpg?v=da438f080b58cd68","score":0.6736,"title":"Forage","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780143133193"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:poetry books"],"label":"Poetry","score":0.1898,"slug":"poetry"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:animals"],"label":"Animals","score":0.0688,"slug":"animals"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:nature"],"label":"Nature","score":0.0486,"slug":"nature"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:poems"],"label":"Poems","score":0.0265,"slug":"poems"},{"evidence_refs":["phrase_map_match"],"label":"Short Stories","score":0.0216,"slug":"short-story"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Farming and agriculture, The farmer’s experience, Tenderness, love, anger, and uncertainty.","Themes: Poetry, Animals, Nature.","Reading lane: Nature Poetry and American Poetry."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.82,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in poetry about farming and the experience of being a farmer"],"themes":["Farming and agriculture","The farmer’s experience","Tenderness, love, anger, and uncertainty"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":0,"goodreads_ratings_count":119,"goodreads_reviews_count":27,"quality_score":0.8746}}