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A Year in Place

ISBN-13: 9780874806731
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
By W Scott Olsen
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Local release date: 30/04/2001
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 238 pages Weight: 364g
Categories: Natural history [WN]

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Google Preview: W. Scott Olsen and Bret Lott invited a dozen friends to consider one particular calendar month in the place they call home. The result is A Year in Place, a captivating collection of new writing by twelve eminent American writers. More than a montage of voices and experiences, A Year in Place illustrates, as Olsen and Lott explain in their introduction, the trends in American thinking about who we are and what we care about. Rick Bass takes us to the Yaak Valley of Montana in June, where fawns are arriving, "newly-emerged, knocked-legged and groggy, legs still unfolding from that long sleeping passage." Peggy Shumaker explores the special social and cultural time that is March in Fairbanks, Alaska, where a long winter has whetted the psychic despair of inhabitants who find in the "sky's unbearable brightness . . . a waking pain beyond endurance." Michael Martone transports us through memory to Indiana in the 1950s where each May a blimp "yawed and floated up," wallowing above a suburban neighborhood on its way to the Indianapolis 500. These and nine other contributions yield an unforgettable book about "the places we find ourselves blessed enough to be."; Introduction | W. Scott Olsen and Bret Lott January Earthquake Weather | Dorothy Barresi February Walking and Falling | Douglas Carlson March Black Branches Taking on Snow | Peggy Shumaker April No Fooling-April in Texas | Naomi Shihab Nye May Racing in Place: 33 Hoosier Haiku | Michael Martone June The Green Hours | Rick Bass July A Journal of July | Diane Glancy August The Ashes of August | Kim Barnes September Running in Place | Katharine Coles October Underground | Elizabeth Dodd November The Inheritance of Autumn | John Lane December Hills Like White Hills | W.D. Wetherell Contributor Notes Editor Notes; "The essays and the writing style are wildly eclectic, each surprising and different, like sampling a buffet of different ethnic foods. It's the best kind of anthology."--The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington "The writing in Place is sometimes personal, sometimes dramatic, sometimes informative, but throughout, the writing is well crafted and engaging."--The Bloomsbury Review; Google Preview content

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