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Informationen zum Autor M. Randal O’Wain earned his MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. He is a teaching assistant professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and serves as a National Endowment of the Arts Writing Fellow at the Beckley Federal Correctional Institution. O’Wain is the author of the short story collection Hallelujah Station and his work has been published in Oxford American, Hotel Amerika, Crazyhorse, and Guernica Magazine. For more information about the author visit randalowain.com. Klappentext Meander Belt is a reflection on how a working-class boy from the American South came to fall in love with language and writing despite his relationship with a father who valued physical rather than mental labor. Zusammenfassung Offers a reflection on how a working-class boy from Memphis, Tennessee, came to fall in love with language, reading, writing, and the larger world outside of the American South. This memoir examines what it means for the son of a carpenter to value mental rather than physical labour and what this does to his relationship with his family. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface I. Mirrored Mezzanine II. Arrow of Light III. Here IV. The Junk Trade V. Superman Dam Fool VI. My Mother Taught Me How to Be VII. Rock and Roll High School VIII. Halfway Between IX. Thirteenth Street and Failing X. Memento Mori Part One: Calls in the Night XI. Memento Mori Part Two: Jackson General XII. Memento Mori Part Three: The Howlers XIII. Rain over Memphis XIV. Ornamental Stairs XV. On Love XVI. Dear Brother XVII. How to Walk as a Nontraditional Graduate XVIII. Barking Hours XIX. Into This Place Acknowledgments
