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Jim W. Corder on living and dying in West Texas : a postmodern scrapbook / preface by James S. Baumlin ; introduction by James S. Baumlin and Eric Knickerbocker.

Title
Jim W. Corder on living and dying in West Texas : a postmodern scrapbook / preface by James S. Baumlin ; introduction by James S. Baumlin and Eric Knickerbocker.
Author
Corder, Jim W. (Jim Wayne), 1929-
Publication
Springfield, Mo. : Moon City Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Baumlin, James S.
  • Knickerbocker, Eric.
Description
159 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "Symbols of Selfhood - of emotional/psychic healing and wholeness, of reconciliation between Corder-the-child and Corder-the-man - lie scattered throughout: buried tins, baseball gloves, West Texas sunsets, hill sides, mesquite trees, ghost towns, dirt roads all take on archetypal meaning, putting the narrator in touch with the Jungian "Self" or Soul. Of particular note in Corder's lifelong Soul-questing is his struggle to love - to rightly value the "anima" or archetypal feminine; he expresses this struggle through dream imagery and fragments of memory, including lost photographs.
  • But of all the markers of Corder's Soul-questing, the most poignant is his last: his description of his grandmother's quilt-making, whose intricate (yet homemade) patterns express the true American folk-mandala, symbolic of psychic wholeness."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Corder, Jim W. 1929-
  • Corder, Jim W. 1929- > Childhood and youth
  • Corder, Jim W. 1929- > Family
  • Corder, Jim W. 1929- > Philosophy
  • 1900-1999
  • Aging > Philosophy
  • Teachers > Texas > Biography
  • Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
  • American poetry
  • Texas, West > Social life and customs
  • Texas, West > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Contents
Preface / James S. Baumlin -- Introduction. The Art of Corder's Memoir / James S. Baumlin and Eric Knickerbocker -- What I Can Show and Tell -- What I Can't Show and Tell -- Family -- What is Lost (I) -- Sisters -- What is Lost (II) -- Brothers -- A Dream of Children -- What is Lost (III) -- Fragments of a Personal Canon -- Missing Persons -- Lost Pieces -- Fluvanna -- Vanished Places -- Not Filed -- Active Files -- I Am Not Here -- The Buried Tin -- A Scrapbook of What's Missing -- The Scrapbook that Holds the Truth at the End of the World.
ISBN
  • 9780913785065 (pbk.)
  • 0913785067 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007048132
OCLC
  • 183926358
  • SCSB-12762504
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library