LEADER 02994nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910779158203321 005 20230802005158.0 010 $a1-280-59653-8 010 $a9786613626363 010 $a0-253-00712-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000103403 035 $a(EBL)816875 035 $a(OCoLC)794663272 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000655535 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11430172 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000655535 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10595878 035 $a(PQKB)10870963 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC816875 035 $a(OCoLC)797838202 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18243 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL816875 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10565316 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL362636 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000103403 100 $a20110809d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEarth works$b[electronic resource] $eselected essays /$fScott Russell Sanders 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (374 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00094-7 311 $a0-253-00095-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; Contents; Preface; The Singular First Person; At Play in the Paradise of Bombs; The Men We Carry in Our Minds; Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair; The Inheritance of Tools; Under the Influence; Looking at Women; Reasons of the Body; After the Flood; House and Home; Staying Put; Wayland; Letter to a Reader; Buckeye; The Common Life; Voyageurs; Mountain Music; Wildness; Beauty; Silence; The Force of Spirit; The Uses of Muscle; A Private History of Awe; A Road into Chaos and Old Night; Words Addressed to Our Condition Exactly; Honoring the Ordinary; Speaking for the Land 327 $aThe Mystique of MoneyBuffalo Eddy; Mind in the Forest; Notes and Acknowledgments 330 $aIn the hands of award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive and revelatory form of art. In 30 of his finest essays-nine never before collected-Sanders examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literary inheritance, and his feeling for wildness. He also tackles such vital issues as the disruption of Earth's climate, the impact of technology, the mystique of money, the ideology of consumerism, and the meaning of sustainability. Throughout, he asks perennial questions: What is a good life? How do family and culture sh 606 $aEssays 606 $aAmerican prose literature 615 0$aEssays. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature. 676 $a814.54 676 $a814/.54 700 $aSanders$b Scott R$g(Scott Russell),$f1945-$01485398 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779158203321 996 $aEarth works$93704503 997 $aUNINA