Author: Merrill Gilfillan
Publisher: Hard Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Merrill Gilfillan is the award-winning short story writer and poet whose Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains, won the first PEN/Martha Albrand Award for non-fiction. Five years later, Gilfillan returns to the genre with a new collection of poetic essays that grew from his travels along the folkloric backroads of Appalachia.
Burnt House to Paw Paw
Author: Merrill Gilfillan
Publisher: Hard Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Merrill Gilfillan is the award-winning short story writer and poet whose Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains, won the first PEN/Martha Albrand Award for non-fiction. Five years later, Gilfillan returns to the genre with a new collection of poetic essays that grew from his travels along the folkloric backroads of Appalachia.
Publisher: Hard Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Merrill Gilfillan is the award-winning short story writer and poet whose Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains, won the first PEN/Martha Albrand Award for non-fiction. Five years later, Gilfillan returns to the genre with a new collection of poetic essays that grew from his travels along the folkloric backroads of Appalachia.
The Landscape of Home
Author: Jeff Lee
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555663933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An anthology of some of the most evocative writing focusing on our vast natural heritage, along with pieces that address pressing land issues facing the West. This collection not only paints a vivid portrait of life in the Rocky Mountains, it also presents some of the finest nonfiction writing to be found in America today. This is a perfect selection that is bound to sink reader's roots deeper in the landscape of home.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555663933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An anthology of some of the most evocative writing focusing on our vast natural heritage, along with pieces that address pressing land issues facing the West. This collection not only paints a vivid portrait of life in the Rocky Mountains, it also presents some of the finest nonfiction writing to be found in America today. This is a perfect selection that is bound to sink reader's roots deeper in the landscape of home.
Chokecherry Places
Author: Merrill Gilfillan
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555662271
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In this new book detailing his travels through the American Great Plains, author Merrill Gilfillan continues to elucidate for us, and add to our appreciation of, one of the most ignored and misunderstood areas of our vast American landscape. Like few American writers, Gilfillan has a deep feeling for, and understanding of the western grasslands, which give both dignity and a deep historical sense to our sometimes forgotten heartland.Gilfillan's sense of the land encompasses the plants, wildflowers, and small creatures; the birds that he writes such wonderfully detailed descriptions about; the rivers, watering holes, and butteframed vistas; and, very importantly, the legacy of the Plains tribes of Native Americans who loved this land and fashioned myth and legend about it. By overlaying these myths onto the modern plains landscape, Gilfillan invokes a poignant sense of loss, yet we are also ennobled by the profound sense of the landscape that his vision imparts to us. Gilfillan is a tour guide like no other. His readers are given lovely, lingering descriptions of the overlooked and forgotten, the out-of-the-way and underfoot.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555662271
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In this new book detailing his travels through the American Great Plains, author Merrill Gilfillan continues to elucidate for us, and add to our appreciation of, one of the most ignored and misunderstood areas of our vast American landscape. Like few American writers, Gilfillan has a deep feeling for, and understanding of the western grasslands, which give both dignity and a deep historical sense to our sometimes forgotten heartland.Gilfillan's sense of the land encompasses the plants, wildflowers, and small creatures; the birds that he writes such wonderfully detailed descriptions about; the rivers, watering holes, and butteframed vistas; and, very importantly, the legacy of the Plains tribes of Native Americans who loved this land and fashioned myth and legend about it. By overlaying these myths onto the modern plains landscape, Gilfillan invokes a poignant sense of loss, yet we are also ennobled by the profound sense of the landscape that his vision imparts to us. Gilfillan is a tour guide like no other. His readers are given lovely, lingering descriptions of the overlooked and forgotten, the out-of-the-way and underfoot.
Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated
Author: Robert DeMott
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496819667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated offers a judicious selection of interviews spanning the writing career of Jim Harrison (1937–2016) from its beginnings in the 1960s to the last interview he gave weeks before his death in March 2016. Harrison labeled himself and lived as a “quadra-schizoid” writer. He worked in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and screenwriting, and he published more than forty books that attracted an international following. These interviews supply a lively narrative of his progress as a major contemporary American author. This collection showcases Harrison's pet peeves, his candor and humility, his sense of humor, and his patience. He does not shy from his authorial obsessions, especially his efforts to hone the novella, for which he is considered a contemporary master, or the frequency with which he defied polite narrative conventions and created memorable, resolute female characters. Each conversation attests to the depth and range of Harrison’s considerable intellectual and political preoccupations, his fierce social and ecological conscience, his aesthetic beliefs, and his stylistic orientations in poetry and prose.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496819667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated offers a judicious selection of interviews spanning the writing career of Jim Harrison (1937–2016) from its beginnings in the 1960s to the last interview he gave weeks before his death in March 2016. Harrison labeled himself and lived as a “quadra-schizoid” writer. He worked in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and screenwriting, and he published more than forty books that attracted an international following. These interviews supply a lively narrative of his progress as a major contemporary American author. This collection showcases Harrison's pet peeves, his candor and humility, his sense of humor, and his patience. He does not shy from his authorial obsessions, especially his efforts to hone the novella, for which he is considered a contemporary master, or the frequency with which he defied polite narrative conventions and created memorable, resolute female characters. Each conversation attests to the depth and range of Harrison’s considerable intellectual and political preoccupations, his fierce social and ecological conscience, his aesthetic beliefs, and his stylistic orientations in poetry and prose.
Puck
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Rivers & Birds
Author: Merrill Gilfillan
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555662967
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In his latest collection, he indulges his passion for birds, for rivers, and for places--and people--off the beaten pathways. He wanders apple orchards in Washington State, sand dunes on Massachusetts' lovely Plum Island, forest paths in the rainy Catskills, and he meanders along the banks of the Mississippi River.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555662967
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
In his latest collection, he indulges his passion for birds, for rivers, and for places--and people--off the beaten pathways. He wanders apple orchards in Washington State, sand dunes on Massachusetts' lovely Plum Island, forest paths in the rainy Catskills, and he meanders along the banks of the Mississippi River.
Boulevard
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
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Author: West Virginia University
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Phlox
Author: James H. Locklear
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 0881929344
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
An in-depth look at the 61 different species of phlox (Høstfloks).
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 0881929344
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
An in-depth look at the 61 different species of phlox (Høstfloks).
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Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Arts, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description