In the tradition of the meditative essay, the writing of Robert Vivian begins with a mundane moment and, through the delicate workings of curiosity, contemplation, and inspiration, reveals unsuspected meaning. In his second collection of essays Vivian finds his occasions in midwestern towns and European cities. He looks for--and sometimes stumbles upon--the spiritual significance of circumstances and places and those who inhabit them, from the Jewish dead in a long-neglected cemetery in Poland to a dog slaughtered on a highway fronting the Black Sea to gunshots ringing out in rural Michigan.…mehr
In the tradition of the meditative essay, the writing of Robert Vivian begins with a mundane moment and, through the delicate workings of curiosity, contemplation, and inspiration, reveals unsuspected meaning. In his second collection of essays Vivian finds his occasions in midwestern towns and European cities. He looks for--and sometimes stumbles upon--the spiritual significance of circumstances and places and those who inhabit them, from the Jewish dead in a long-neglected cemetery in Poland to a dog slaughtered on a highway fronting the Black Sea to gunshots ringing out in rural Michigan. Again and again Vivian probes what such phenomena suggest about the times we live in--and what they share with every time that ever was.
Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, and his plays have been produced in New York City. He is the author of Cold Snap as Yearning and the Tall Grass Trilogy, which includes The Mover of Bones, Lamb Bright Saviors, and Another Burning Kingdom, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.
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Acknowledgments I. Hauntings Ghost Hallway Hearing Trains Ashtray County Gestures in Waiting Casino Love Walking with Marisa The Fog Sleepers Hotel in Auschwitz Death of a Shortstop Notes from the Konukevi II. Folk Music Beggar on the Danube Looking for the Bishop Doctor Whisper Starlight in a Spoon A Prejudice of Teeth These Faces Porch Falling Shadows Moving Porch-Wise Falling into the Arms of a Dervish III. Hope Town Army of Wonder Guardian of the Lost Bell Bus Stop Elegy Every Day a Flower Opens Washed Away Working in the Jewish Cemetery Latecomer to Glorious Places Seeing a Lake from Far Away Why I Go North How Gunshots Became a Comfort to Me
Acknowledgments I. Hauntings Ghost Hallway Hearing Trains Ashtray County Gestures in Waiting Casino Love Walking with Marisa The Fog Sleepers Hotel in Auschwitz Death of a Shortstop Notes from the Konukevi II. Folk Music Beggar on the Danube Looking for the Bishop Doctor Whisper Starlight in a Spoon A Prejudice of Teeth These Faces Porch Falling Shadows Moving Porch-Wise Falling into the Arms of a Dervish III. Hope Town Army of Wonder Guardian of the Lost Bell Bus Stop Elegy Every Day a Flower Opens Washed Away Working in the Jewish Cemetery Latecomer to Glorious Places Seeing a Lake from Far Away Why I Go North How Gunshots Became a Comfort to Me
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