From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place?...
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Author: Deborah Tall
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Language: English
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From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place by Tall, Deborah

From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

$45.18

From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

$45.18
Author: Deborah Tall
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall's From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places--and the loss to us if there are no such connections. A typically rootless child of several American suburbs, Tall set out to make a true home for herself in the landscape that circumstance had brought her--the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. In a mosaic of personal anecdotes, historical sketches, and lyrical meditations, she interweaves her own story with the story of this place and its people--from the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois, to European settlers, to the many utopians who sensed and were inspired by a spiritual resonance here. This edition includes an introduction by William Kittredge and a foreword by Stephen Kuusisto, both highlighting the book's significance and Tall's exquisite skill in tracing the relationship between homelands and storytelling.

Author: Deborah Tall
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 05/05/2016
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.09h x 5.97w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780815610724

About the Author
Deborah Tall (1951-2006) is the author of five collections of poetry, and two prose works -- a memoir of her life in rural Ireland in the 1970s, The Island of the White Cow, and a book-length lyric essay, A Family of Strangers, about history, silence and family secrets. For many years, she taught writing and literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and edited the literary journal Seneca Review.

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