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Informationen zum Autor Kurt Caswell is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. His essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Isotope, Ninth Letter, Northern Lights, Potomac Review, and Matter. Klappentext Although finding a way to feel at home in the world is ultimately the life's work of us all! rarely has the search ranged as far or found as precise and moving an expression as it does in "An Inside Passage." Winner of the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize! Kurt Caswell's narrative chronicles his travels in the rugged mountain forests of Japan's Shiretoko National Park! on a vision quest in Death Valley! and to the sacred waters of the Ganges River. Whether contemplating a great blue heron as it rests riverside at the onset of a storm! reflecting on a beloved student's untimely death! walking through the Navajo reservation! or receiving the blessing of a Hindu priest! Caswell unerringly finds the moment of truth. His journey also takes us across the landscape of his marriage! both its initial sweetness and its eventual failure. The ensuing inner dislocation echoes a larger estrangement that makes more poignant Caswell's quest to find a place he can call home. Zusammenfassung Chronicles the author's travels in the rugged mountain forests of Japan's Shiretoko National Park! on a vision quest in Death Valley! and to the sacred waters of the Ganges. This book also features the landscape of his marriage! both its initial sweetness and its eventual failure. Inhaltsverzeichnis California RentalFive Country WalksFawnThe Way to Coss CreekLetter to a Young Girl at Summer's EndA Horse Builds a Woman in a Storm (a Dream)A Matter for HeronThe RescueBanaue TercetInstructions at the HeadwatersThe Best Thing about Marriage is DivorceWild Man at IouzanMountains Belong to People Who Love ThemHunger at the MountainAn Inside Passage...
