The least cricket of evening / Robert Vivian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vivian, Robert, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--21st century.

American essays.

Essays--21st century.

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the tradition of the meditative essay, the writing of Robert Vivian begins with a mundane moment and, through the delicate workings of curiosity, contemplation, and inspiration, reveals unsuspected meaning.In his second collection of essays Vivian finds his occasions in midwestern towns and European cities. He looks for-and sometimes stumbles upon-the spiritual significance of circumstances and places and those who inhabit them, from the Jewish dead in a long-neglected cemetery in Poland to a dog slaughtered on a highway fronting the Black Sea to gunshots ringing out in

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I. Hauntings; Ghost Hallway; Hearing Trains; Ashtray County; Gestures in Waiting; Casino Love; Walking with Marisa; The Fog Sleepers; Hotel in Auschwitz; Death of a Shortstop; Notes from the Konukevi; II. Folk Music; Beggar on the Danube; Looking for the Bishop; Doctor Whisper; Starlight in a Spoon; A Prejudice of Teeth; These Faces; Porch Falling; Shadows Moving Porch-Wise; Falling into the Arms of a Dervish; III. Hope; Town; Army of Wonder; Guardian of the Lost Bell; Bus Stop Elegy; Every Day a Flower Opens; Washed Away

Working in the Jewish CemeteryLatecomer to Glorious Places; Seeing a Lake from Far Away; Why I Go North; How Gunshots Became a Comfort to Me

Notes:

Essays.

ISBN:

9786613664372

9781280687433

1280687436

9780803238350

0803238355

OCLC:

794664042