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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
A Hundred Cities

A Hundred Cities

Shepard, Ben

Paperback

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ISBN10: 0557667143
ISBN13: 9780557667147
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Sep 11 2010
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.37 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
The snow is receding from the roadside and sinking surreptitiously into the forest, as if to direct our thoughts to sunnier days ahead in Denmark, but we know better. It is still January and the chill is omnipresent. Underneath the snowy, faux tundra the lush, green, German countryside is bursting forth with a vibrant enthusiasm. An endearing, though premature gesture, indeed, for winter is just hitting its stride. Regardless, there is a desolate beauty in the static numbness that surrounds us, the way a recent snowfall conceals the landscape under a uniform, seamless blanket. It is incorrupt, untouched. Its perfection elicits a feeling of forgottenness. Is there anything more isolating than to be forgotten? Every time I see a fresh canopy of freshly driven snow, I want to stop the van and track across the field, I want to destroy its quiet purity, as if to say to all who will hear, 'I will not forget you. I will not abandon you.'

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