The Place Within: Portraits of the American Landscape by 20 Contemporary Writers Hardcover - 1996
by Jodi Daynard (Editor)
The Place Within is a time capsule in words by some of our most distinguished writers. These portraits about the places in our country's diverse landscape range from the hummingbirds of Montana to the neon lights of Time Square, the brush fires of Alaska to the Grand Canyon's silend grandeur. Finally, NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman lifts us up above America into space, where he looks down upon the country in all its vast and yet poignantly fragile entirety.
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Ellen Meloy's writing, deeply embedded in place, is a combination of lyricism, spiritual meditation, and arch humor.
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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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- Title The Place Within: Portraits of the American Landscape by 20 Contemporary Writers
- Author Jodi Daynard (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 1996-11-17
- ISBN 9780393039993 / 0393039994
- Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9.48 x 6.45 x 1.05 in (24.08 x 16.38 x 2.67 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects American literature - 20th century, Landscape - United States - Literary
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96013708
- Dewey Decimal Code 814.540
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Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/1997, Page 808
- Library Journal, 11/15/1996, Page 63
- Publishers Weekly, 09/30/1996, Page 70
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