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Walt Whitman's meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one's place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes including locales as varied as Walden Pond and Mesa Verde, the mountains of Montana and the coastline of Maine, Great Lakes shorelines and Manhattan on the first day of the war with Iraq. Rich in "all that retrospection," Postscripts chronicles moments of intimacy and arrival in the natural world while also charting intersections of natural, cultural, and personal history. Whether revisiting the first European settlement in Nova Scotia or seeking out the sites of E. B. White's life and literature, exploring the only old-growth forest in lower Michigan or shifting perceptions at the birth of a granddaughter, Root offers readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history. If the past is prologue, his book suggests, the present is postscript.    

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Prologue: Words in the Wind       (The Green Mountains, Vermont)Part 1.To Think of Time     (The Habitation, Nova Scotia)Part 2.The Pattern of Life Indelible     (Belgrade Lakes, Maine)The Everlastingly Great Look of the Sky     (Walden Pond, Massachusetts)Here is New York     (New York, New York)Part 3.Anasazi     (The Four Corners)Knowing Where You've Been     (The Bitterroot Mountains, Montana)Part 4.Shore Lines     (The Great Lakes)Of Trees and Time     (Warren Woods, Michigan)Part 5.Terra Cognita     (Acadia National Park, Maine)Time and Tide     (Acadia National Park, Maine)Epilogue: Postscript to a Postscript to "The Ring of Time"     (Sarasota, Florida)Select Bibliography

About the Author :
Robert Root is a visiting professor in the MFA program in creative writing at Ashland University and professor emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University. Three of the essays in Postscripts have been cited as Notable Essays in the annual Best American Essays collections. Root's books include Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, both available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Review :
"Root illuminates E. B. White's "Once More to the Lake" in the same way jazz greats find a musical idea in a standard and make it their own; Root offers a rich and generous account of how a writer is transformed by and can transform great literature." - Leslie Carol Roberts, author of The Entire Earth and Sky "This quiet, contemplative, and profound book is a celebration of love of places from one of our best thinkers about love of place." - David Gessner, author of Return of the Osprey "In Postscripts Robert Root takes you on a tour of iconic American places; the touch is deft, the conversation deep, and Henry Thoreau and E. B. White, like old friends, seem always in the next room." - William deBuys, author of A Great Aridness


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803238466
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: Retrospections on Time and Place
  • ISBN-10: 0803238460
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Width: 152 mm


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