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A place of sense : essays in search of the Midwest / edited by Michael Martone ; photographs by David Plowden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Bur oak originalPublication details: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press for the Iowa Humanities Board, 1988.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (144 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 158729141X
  • 9781587291418
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Place of sense.DDC classification:
  • 977 19
LOC classification:
  • F355 .P58 1988eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Under the sign of Wonder Bread and Belmont Caskets / Michael J. Rosen -- The flatness / Michael Martone -- A writer's sense of place / Louise Erdrich -- The way the country lies / Douglas Bauer -- American Gothic / David Hamilton -- If you can talk to a guy / Jane Staw and Mary Swander -- Grandma's backbone, Dougie's ankles / Gary Comstock -- Letting go : the virtue of vacant ground / Janet Kauffman.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: A Place of Sense will stir up memories of those of us who live(d) in the Midwest and give the rest of the country a sense of what they've missed. ... should give any Midwesterner a sense, in both meanings of the term, of freedom of thought and feeling possible within the even metre of the streets and fields. Collected here are essays by Louise Erdrich, Michael Rosen, Gary Comstock, Mary Swander, Jane Staw, David Hamilton, Janet Kauffman, Douglas Bauer, and Michael Martone, with sixteen black-and-white photographs by David Plowden.
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A Place of Sense will stir up memories of those of us who live(d) in the Midwest and give the rest of the country a sense of what they've missed. ... should give any Midwesterner a sense, in both meanings of the term, of freedom of thought and feeling possible within the even metre of the streets and fields. Collected here are essays by Louise Erdrich, Michael Rosen, Gary Comstock, Mary Swander, Jane Staw, David Hamilton, Janet Kauffman, Douglas Bauer, and Michael Martone, with sixteen black-and-white photographs by David Plowden.

Under the sign of Wonder Bread and Belmont Caskets / Michael J. Rosen -- The flatness / Michael Martone -- A writer's sense of place / Louise Erdrich -- The way the country lies / Douglas Bauer -- American Gothic / David Hamilton -- If you can talk to a guy / Jane Staw and Mary Swander -- Grandma's backbone, Dougie's ankles / Gary Comstock -- Letting go : the virtue of vacant ground / Janet Kauffman.

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