Weeding at Dawn: A Lesbian Country Life by Hawk Madrone

It can sometimes be easy to romanticize or admire those women, many lesbians, who made their way from cities to rural 'back to the land' or communal living. This is the journey of Hawk Madrone who has lived in the hills of Oregon for 25 years. This beautifully told collection of poems, essays and creative nonfiction offer an aging and weathered view of youthful enthusiasm, philosophical and reflective rumination on struggle, labor, intimacy, vision, and lesbian-history-in the-making, and ultimately the peaceful contentment of living close to nature.