I HEAR AMERICA SWINGING
by PETER DEVRIES
211 pages. Little, Brown. $7.95.
I hear America swinging ...
All free in the great freedom that
is to come, that is already
here, I declare it as I
celebrate it,
Every man taking unto himself
a wife, no matter whose,
Every woman taking unto herself
a husband, no matter whose.
—Peter De Vries, after Walt Whitman
A terrible blight is creeping through the Iowa cornfields. "It's what they call brittle dialogue," explains Ma Sigafoos, an entrepreneurial food franchiser who hawks home cooking under the brand name of Land's Sakes....