The Eclipse I Call Father : Essays on Absence / David Axelrod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Axelrod, David, 1931-2017, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Axelrod, David, 1958-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Corvallis, OR : 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?

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-87071-970-X