"The engaging writings gathered in this new book explore an important but little-publicized movement in American culture -- the marked resurgence of agrarian practices and values in rural areas, suburbs, and even cities. It is a movement that in widely varied ways is attempting to strengthen society's roots in the land while bringing greater health to families, neighborhoods, and communities. The New Agrarianism vividly displays the move ..."
"In Waste Land, photographer David T. Hanson presents a picture of our environment that is unfamiliar and deeply disturbing. It is, however, a picture that must be looked at and contended with if our environment is to survive. In the words of the writer Wendell Berry, Hanson has "given us the topography of our open wounds." Waste Land is a powerful book that will not permit us to turn our backs on the declining state of our environment.D ..."
"Little Night Creatures — J. Patrick Lewis (New England Review/ Bread Loaf
Quarterly) Girls — John L'Heureux (Denver Quarterly) Heirloom — Renee
Manfredi (Cimarron Review) King of Safety — Michael Martone (Crescent
Review) The Smoke of Invisible Fires — Jack Matthews (Bottom Dog Press) The
Hellraiser — Robert G. McBrearty (Mississippi Review) Bodies At Sea — Erin
McGraw (Georgia Review) Second Hands — Kevin Mcllvoy (Missouri Review) ..."
"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 ..."
"My main course was chilled Maine lobster with oven-dried tomatoes, tart apples
and sweet corn under a lemon-basil vinaigrette. All gods, except those of ...
Suzana Avila re-creates her menu of vivid borderlands food daily. Order the mole
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"Featuring:
THE WINNERS of the 2010 Montana Prize in Fiction, Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry
FICTION by Amber Watson, Eliot Treichel, Kathleen de Azevedo, Eileen Myles, Christopher Merkner, and Peter Orner.
NONFICTION by William Kittredge and Judy Blunt
POETRY by Gillian Cummings, Dave Nielsen, Dlyn Fairfax Parra, Patricia Murphy, John Whalen, Peter Richards, Simon Perchik, William O'Daly, ..."
"“Or the right boy," Lemma said. “A sweet, insistent boy asking, how about it?" “
Louis Armstrong split his lip in London," Arnold said. “He's in Paris. Unable to
play." Bernard crooned, imitating Armstrong's inflections. “just another jig I know.]
ust a gigolo." “I hadift noticed that you'd been into the martinis," Arnold said i11
that lean way. “You and Rossie have an affiliation." Bernard smiled. 'Tm reduced
to jazz and milk cows, ..."
"Here is a collection of the best contemporary short stories of the American West by a diverse group of writers, young and old, male and female, well-known and not-so-known. And for the first time there appears, side-by-side, the work of so-called “traditional” Western writers, such as Max Evans, Elmer Kelton, and Elmore Leonard, and the “literary” contingent, represented by William Kittredge, Valerie Miner, and Luis Alberto Urrea. Taken ..."
The Next Rodeo New and Selected Essays by WilliamKittredge Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-479-4, ISBN: 1-55597-479-1
"William Kittredge's relationship to the spare, often unforgiving Western landscape is fraught with contradictions. Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, he has an intimate connection to the vast landscape that was once vital to his family's trade. He has also witnessed, over many decades, the depletion of the West's natural resources due to overuse. In The Next Rodeo, the author's luminous essays move effortlessly from the person ..."
The Willow Field(1st Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries) by WilliamKittredge Paperback, 339 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3412-3, ISBN: 1-4000-3412-4
"After numerous essays, short stories and the heralded memoir A Hole in the Sky, William Kittredge gives us a debut novel that ratifies his standing as a leading writer of the American West.Rossie Benasco’s horseback existence begins at age 15 and culminates in a thousand-mile drive of more than 200 head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary. It’s a journey that leads him, ultimately, to Eliza Stevenson and a passion so powerful, hi ..."
The Willow Field(Large Print) by WilliamKittredge Hardcover, 633 Pages, Published 2007 by Thorndike Pr Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7862-9353-7, ISBN: 0-7862-9353-5
"In 1934, Rossie Benasco's cowboy lifestyle culminates in a thousand-mile drive through the Rocky Mountains into Calgary, a journey that leads him to Eliza Stevenson and a desire to spend the rest of his life with her on a Montana ranch."
The Willow Field(1st Edition) by WilliamKittredge Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4097-1, ISBN: 1-4000-4097-3
"Annie Dillard has called him “one of our finest writers.” Jane Smiley has declared his voice “prophetic.” Now, at long last—after two collections of stories, another two of essays, and the heralded memoir A Hole in the Sky—William Kittredge gives us his first novel: an epic that stretches over the twentieth century, from the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it.Rossie ..."
Crazy for Golf A Nonfiction Book on Golf by WilliamKittredge Published 2005 ISBN-13: 978-1-59228-461-0, ISBN: 1-59228-461-2
"The Idaho Review is an annual literary journal published by Boise State University."
Owning It All(Updated) Essays by WilliamKittredge Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2002 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-366-7, ISBN: 1-55597-366-3
"This is a deeply felt and highly informed essay collection about life in the American west by one of the finest writers ever to emerge from that region. As the Seattle Times has said of Owning It All: "You may never again see the American west in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge. [This is a] stunning book." Having grown up on his family's cattle ranch in eastern Oregon, Kittredge d ..."
Southwestern Homelands (National Geographic Directions) by WilliamKittredge Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by National Geographic ISBN-13: 978-0-7922-6534-4, ISBN: 0-7922-6534-3
"For part of each of the last twenty years, much-loved essayist and fiction writer William Kittredge has ventured to the storied desert landscape of the American Southwest and immersed himself in the region's wide-ranging wonders and idiosyncrasies. Here Kittredge brings all this experience to bear as he takes us on a rewarding tour of the territory that runs from Santa Fe to Yuma, and from the Grand Canyon on south through Phoenix and T ..."