The eclipse I call father : essays on absence / David Axelrod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Axelrod, David, 1958- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Axelrod, David, 1958-.

Axelrod, David, 1958---Childhood and youth.

Axelrod, David, 1958---Homes and haunts.

Homes.

Physical Description:

vii, 211 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"A collection of essays exploring the concept of absence, ranging across topics as diverse as marriage, Japanese poetry, Craftsman design, Old English riddles, racism, extinction, fatherhood, mountaineering, predatory mega-fauna, street fighting, trains, the Great Depression, and the effects of climate change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Bashō's frog

Accretions of absence

To live as we dream

The eclipse I call father

Boxing lessons

Evidence of things not seen

Note left on a mountain

The old marriage

Sometimes the great depression

Auguries of absence

From a slow train

The Dharma upstream

As the world caught fire

What does the whitebark pine say?

ISBN:

9780870719691

0870719696

OCLC:

1057376953