Research Catalog

Title

Having everything right : essays of place / by Kim Stafford ; selected and introduced by Robert Michael Pyle.

Author

Stafford, Kim Robert

Publication

• Berkeley, CA : Pharos Editions, 2016.
• ©2016

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Pyle, Robert Michael

Description

xii, 170 pages; 21 cm

Summary

A collection of essays first published in 1986, Having Everything Right revolves around the history, folklore, and physical beauty of the Pacific Northwest. In terms of genre the book comes closest to books like Wallace Stegners Wolf Willow or the essay collections of Edward Abbey and Wendell Berry, books that blend personal vision and regional evocation. Stafford's essays in this tradition range from the direct exploration of "A Walk in Early May" to the abstract meditation of "Out of This World with Chaucer and the Astronauts," to the familial and social reflections of "The Great Depression as Heroic Age." Animating them all is the sense that there is joy in knowing the world-and the belief that true knowing brings, as Stafford says, "a change of heart." Stafford writes poetic and evocative prose as he reflects on such subjects as Indian place names, bears, and local eccentrics.

Subject

• Northwest, Pacific > Civilization
• Northwest, Pacific > Intellectual life
• Stafford, Kim Robert > Homes and haunts > Northwest, Pacific

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Naming the Northwest -- Out of this world with Chaucer and the astronauts -- A few miles short of wisdom -- The story that saved life -- December meditation at Camp Polk Cemetery -- A walk in early May -- The separate hearth -- Pine, fir, cedar, yew -- The Great Depression as heroic age -- Local character -- River & road -- Dancing Bear of the Siuslaw -- The barn and the bees -- Root feast -- A note on sources.

ISBN

• 1940436400
• 9781940436401

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library