Scott Owens draws heavily on his memories of growing up in the fast-disappearing rural South to bring forth his seventh collection of poetry, a collage of diverse but interconnected, mostly narrative poems about life on or near the farm, at times as a participant and at other times as a witness.

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Every word in this collection rings true, all seems authentic and lived-through.

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For One Who Knows How to Own Land is a welcome and valuable addition to our literary landscape. With the virtual disappearance of the small family farm from the American scene, the number of us who have experienced the rural life is shrinking. Lest we fall into any sort of romantic reverie about the good old days when folks worked their own tobacco fields and butchered their own hogs, Owens shows us that life in the country was a hard life.