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The place within : portraits of the American landscape by twenty contemporary writers

Title: The place within : portraits of the American landscape by twenty contemporary writers / edited by Jodi Daynard.
Publication: New York : Norton, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Daynard, Jodi.

Description

268 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Each of the writers in this beautiful collection of nearly all original pieces evokes a different place in our country's diverse landscape - a place he or she lived in, visited, or was intimately influenced or shaped by. These writers, in voices ranging from the lyrical to the meditative, awaken or allow us to discover anew a feeling for what we call America in all its many faces.
Here you'll find the American spirit in Phillip Lopate's gridlocked "Manhattan," in Richard Rodriguez's gay San Francisco, and in Gerald Early's uneasily "integrated" St. Louis. In her moving essay on South Dakota, Kathleen Norris reflects on the way objects change our experience of space. Gretel Ehrlich's essay on Wyoming is also about a cure for human grief.
As a whole, these intimate portraits celebrate a sense of place, rural and urban, gritty and placid; and they show how landscape transforms us, becomes a place within.

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Contents

A Map for Hummingbirds (Montana) / Ellen Meloy -- Swamp as Metaphor (Georgia) / Harry Crews -- Hallelujah (Maine) / Alan Lightman -- The Grandeur of the Grand Canyon (Nevada) / Diane Ackerman -- Clovelly (Virginia) / Suzanne Berne -- Late Victorians (San Francisco, CA) / Richard Rodriguez -- Suburbia, USA (Westchester, NY) / Jodi Daynard -- The Journey to Trinity (New Mexico) / Bradford Morrow -- Mountain Music (Colorado) / Scott Russell Sanders -- Manhattan, Floating World (New York City) / Phillip Lopate -- The Solace of Open Spaces (Wyoming) / Gretel Ehrlich -- Dreaming of Trees (South Dakota) / Kathleen Norris -- St. Louis (Missouri) / Gerald Early -- Taking Care of Our Horses (Oregon) / William Kittredge -- Chicago Waters (Chicago, IL) / Susan Power -- Fire in the Valley (Alaska) / Natalie Kusz -- A Day of Roads (Cape Cod. MA) / Robert Finch -- Winter (New Hampshire) / Donald Hall -- Florida (Key West, FL) / Joy Williams --
A Place Above America (NASA Space Shuttle, Space) / Jeffrey A. Hoffman.

ISBN

0393039994

LCCN

96013708

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries