New Book Day: Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres

When we first started The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, we planned to do some republications of classic works with updated covers, book designs, and illustrations. As the press gained momentum and took on a life of its own, that idea drifted into the background, but never entirely faded away. Today’s New Book Day is proof of this. It is my pleasure to announce the publication of Clell Gannon’s Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres. Gannon, a prairie poet, painter, and public intellectual first published these this slim book of poetry in 1924. We have reprinted it here…