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John Daniel

The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature

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John Daniel writes from the ground he walks on and the landscape he inhabits in the northwest corner of America, spinning narratives that seek to discover how he belongs to the land and to the wholeness of life itself. He takes his readers to beaches, old-growth forests, sagebrush steppe-lands, and deep river canyons -- wild places, and places scarred by human exploitation -- and leads us too through inner terrains where he explores mortality, creativity, and spirituality.Both lyrical and informative, these essays are diverse in focus, various in length, and inventive in form -- one is constructed as a journal, two as linear montages. By turn… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-58243-584-8
  • EAN: 9781582435848
  • Produktnummer: 6561932
  • Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 205 S.
  • Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 318 g
  • Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor


John Daniel's books of prose, including Rogue River Journal and The Far Corner, have won three Oregon Book Awards for Literary Nonfiction, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and have been supported by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts among other grants and awards. His essays and poems have appeared in Wilderness Magazine, Orion, Sierra, Terrain.org, The North American Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and other journals and anthologies. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, he has taught as a writer–in–residence at colleges and universities across the country. Earlier in life he was a logger, hod carrier, railroader, and rock–climbing instructor. Daniel lives with his wife, Marilyn Daniel, in the Coast Range foothills west of Eugene, Oregon.

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