His latest album, "America" (Domino), is an ambitious and anarchistic study of these amber fields of grain.
Led by church elder William Bringhurst, the Mormons built a log fort surrounded by garden plots and fields of grain.
Brown and gray forest soils characterize the uplands: two-fifths are covered by forests, the rest by orchards, vineyards, and fields of grain.
The hotel, surrounded by wildflowers and fields of grain, was once a masseria (a farmhouse with fortified walls typical of southern Italy) built by a wealthy landowner.
The plains along the Rhine and Main rivers are a mosaic of vineyards, orchards, and fields of grain, potatoes, and tobacco.
The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.
The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards, where white clouds of bloom drifted above the green land.
I treated the poem as if the images — the dignified grace of the horses, the school where children played, the fields of grain, the setting sun — were parts of a slow-motion film montage.
In September, the Library of America will publish Wilder's collected fiction in a two-volume boxed set, edited and annotated by Caroline Fraser, with a glossy picture of amber fields of grain on the cover.
