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...
Walt Whitman s meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one s place in the end...
The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While acknowledging the literary impulse of nonfiction to be a fourth genre equivalent to poetry, fiction, and drama, this text focuses on subgenres of the nonfiction form, including memoir, nature writing, personal essays, literary journalism, cultural criticism, and travel writing. This anthology was the first to draw on the common ground of the practicing writer and the practical scholar and to make the pedagogical...
The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of crea...
