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Writing from the Center

Writing from the Center

Sanders, Scott Russell

Paperback

Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0253211433
ISBN13: 9780253211439
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jul 22 1997
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Great Lakes Book Awards

. . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry. --Library Journal

[Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our natural resources . . . --Publishers Weekly

Skillfully written in a clear, unmannered style refreshingly devoid of irony and hollow cleverness, the author starts with everyday experiences and gleans from them larger truths. --The Christian Science Monitor

[These] essays are so good one is tempted to stand up and applaud after reading them. . . . Sanders is a modern day prospector who finds gems of spiritual meaning in both familiar and unusual places. --Body Mind Spirit

Writing from the Center is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. Lannan Literary Award winner Scott Sanders (Secrets of the Universe, Staying Put, A Paradise of Bombs) seeks and describes a center that is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual--and is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal.

The earth needs fewer tourists and more inhabitants, it seems to me--fewer people who float about in bubbles of money and more people committed to knowing and tending their home ground. --Scott Russell Sanders, from the book

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