Earth works : selected essays / Scott Russell Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell), 1945-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xiv, 355 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]

Summary:

In the hands of award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive and revelatory form of art. In 30 of his finest essays- nine never before collected-Sanders , examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literary inheritance, and his feeling for wildness. He also tackles such vital issues as the disruption of Earth's climate, the impact of technology, the mystique of money, the ideology of consumerism, and the meaning of sustainability. Throughout, he asks perennial questions: What is a good life? How do family and culture shape a person's character? How should we treat one another and the Earth? What is our role in the cosmos? Readers and writers alike will find wisdom and inspiration in Sanders's luminous and thought-provoking prose. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Singular First Person 1

At Play in the Paradise of Bombs 12

The Men We Carry in Our Minds 26

Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair 31

The Inheritance of Tools 49

Under the Influence 56

Looking at Women 69

Reasons of the Body 81

After the Flood 93

House and Home 101

Staying Put 112

Wayland 128

Letter to a Reader 141

Buckeye 156

The Common Life 162

Voyageurs 178

Mountain Music 192

Wildness 204

Beauty 214

Silence 225

The Force of Spirit 235

The Uses of Muscle 246

A Private History of Awe 253

A Road into Chaos and Old Night 264

Words Addressed to Our Condition Exactly 272

Honoring the Ordinary 284

Speaking for the Land 296

The Mystique of Money 310

Buffalo Eddy 323

Mind in the Forest 333.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780253000941

0253000947

9780253000958

0253000955

OCLC:

721905762