SEVERAL PORTRAITS OF PIETA ARE INCLUDED IN PHOTOGRAPHER SANDRA LOUISE DYAS' BOOK OF PHOTOS, 'DOWN TO THE RIVER' (UNIVERSTIY OF IOWA PRESS 2007). TWO SONGS OF PIETA'S ARE ALSO INCLUDED ON A CD (COMPILED BY MS. DYAS) THAT COMES WITH THE PACKAGE. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO PURCHASE THE BOOK PLEASE VISIT SANDYDYAS.COM.
“Sandra Dyas’s photos capture Iowa’s middle landscape, the one where human habitation has made a place for itself between the mechanization of the prairie and the collapse of the family farm. This is the Iowa that gets lived in and sung about. You might catch a glimpse of it at deep twilight, on some nameless county road, where you’ll find a guitar picker or fiddler or steel player: a mere mote on a blanket of soybeans and corn. Like every farmer or elevator operator or grain dealer who’s at home in the idea of moving on, Iowa’s musicians put down roots where they are. You really can’t miss the resemblance in these photos—wanderers who came to make a life and like it or not succeeded at it.”—Robert Cantwell
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