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Informationen zum Autor Robert Root is a visiting professor in the MFA program in creative writing at Ashland University and professor emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University. Three of the essays in Postscripts have been cited as Notable Essays in the annual Best American Essays collections. Root's books include Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, both available from the University of Nebraska Press. Klappentext Robert Root is a visiting professor in the MFA program in creative writing at Ashland University and professor emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University. Three of the essays in Postscripts have been cited as Notable Essays in the annual Best American Essays collections. Root¿s books include Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and Recovering Ruth: A Biographer¿s Tale! both available from the University of Nebraska Press. Zusammenfassung Walt Whitman's meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts! a series of reflections on finding one's place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays! Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes to offer readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place! time and timelessness! history and personal history. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Words in the Wind (The Green Mountains, Vermont) Part 1.To Think of Time (The Habitation, Nova Scotia) Part 2.The Pattern of Life Indelible (Belgrade Lakes, Maine) The Everlastingly Great Look of the Sky (Walden Pond, Massachusetts) Here is New York ( New York, New York) Part 3.Anasazi (The Four Corners) Knowing Where You've Been (The Bitterroot Mountains, Montana) Part 4.Shore Lines (The Great Lakes) Of Trees and Time (Warren Woods, Michigan) Part 5.Terra Cognita (Acadia National Park, Maine) Time and Tide (Acadia National Park, Maine) Epilogue: Postscript to a Postscript to "The Ring of Time" (Sarasota, Florida) Select Bibliography...
