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Imagining Home Writing from the Midwest Mark Vinz and Thom Tammaro, editors |
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Well-known authors reflect on their Midwestern heritage. American literature has always been connected to region and place—the New England of Robert Frost, the West of John Steinbeck, and the South of William Faulkner. In this volume, sixteen nationally acclaimed authors reflect on how their Midwestern heritage has shaped their attitudes, values, and development as writers. Imagining Home centers on the premise that a sense of place is far more than a matter of geographical landscape, comprising instead a complex web of associations, human communities, history, spirituality, and memory. In untangling and reweaving these various strands, the authors consider that while the Upper Midwestern terrain is quite diverse, there is nonetheless a kind of cohesiveness—a lack of large urban centers, a low density of population—that makes the area almost invisible to itself. These essays offer a chance to look at the way landscape plays a key role in the formation of imagination as well as to come to terms with the paradox of love and disdain for one's home place. "Anthologies are a fine way to discover new authors, or at least authors new to a reader, and this book is no exception. Sixteen Midwestern writers offer their own ways of looking at this region and how it has influenced their work." —Bloomsbury Review "Excellent. A collection of voices that can't be rated: they're a choir, with each voice adding its own resonance, its own distinctive chime, and helping to create a book that is a gift to our community." —St. Paul Pioneer Press "A thoroughly enjoyable collection of well-written essays from diverse voices that lend insight to our sense of home." —Fargo Forum Contributors: Martha Bergland (Wisconsin), Carol Bly (Minnesota), Jack Driscoll (Michigan), David Allan Evans (South Dakota), Paul Gruchow (Minnesota), Patricia Hampl (Minnesota), Linda Hasselstrom (South Dakota), Jon Hassler (Minnesota), David Haynes (Missouri), Bill Holm (Minnesota), Michael Martone (Iowa), Kent Meyers (South Dakota), Kathleen Norris (South Dakota), Robert Schuler (Wisconsin), Mary Swander (Iowa), and Larry Watson (North Dakota). Mark Vinz is professor of English at Moorhead State University. Thom Tammaro is professor of multidisciplinary studies at Moorhead State University. Together, they edited Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest, winner of a 1993 Minnesota Book Award. Winner of a 1995 Minnesota Book Award 224 pages | 5-7/8 x 9 | cloth: 1995, paper: 2000 |
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