by Bob Nandell (Author)

From the air Iowa is a huge patchwork quilt. The land is laid out in tidy squares, separated by white gravel farm roads, gray concrete state highways, and black asphalt county line roads. These prose poems and prize-winning photographs salute the people who have built the towns and farms still dotting Iowa's landscape.

Author Biography

Bob Nandell is a retired Des Moines (Iowa) Register photographer. A native Iowan, he has written several illustrated books of poems about Iowa's landscape and people.