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245 00 $aTownships /$cedited by Michael Martone ;
photographs by Raymond Bial.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aIowa City :$bUniversity of Iowa Press,$c1992.
263 $a9204
300 $a210 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ;$c25 cm.
440 2 $aA Bur oak original
505 00 $tCorrectionville, Iowa: An Introduction /$rMichael
Martone -- $tAt the Edge of Town: Duluth, Minn. /$rCarol Bly
-- $tQuiet House /$rMarianne Boruch -- $tWater Plans
/$rAnthony Bukoski -- $tProvidence /$rAmy Clampitt --
$tRummage /$rSusan Dodd -- $tYou Can't Step into the Same
Street Twice /$rStuart Dybek -- $tBloomington, Indiana, in
Conrad's Light /$rDeborah Galyan -- $tWhere I'm
From--Originally /$rJoseph Geha -- $tRosewood Township
/$rPaul Gruchow -- $tJefferson Township: The Land That Made
Me /$rJames B. Hall -- $tWhen the Bough Breaks /$rSusan
Hauser -- $tLandfill of Memory, the Landscape of the
Imagination /$rC.J. Hribal -- $tActive Voice /$rEllen
Hunnicutt -- $tTownline /$rVerlyn Klinkenborg -- $tBeaver
Township, Bay County, Michigan /$rHoward Kohn -- $tEntering
Poetry /$rPhilip Levine -- $tQuake /$rSusan Neville --
$tNone of Us Went Back /$rLon Otto -- $tTownship Argo
/$rMichael J. Rosen -- $tAfter the Flood /$rScott Russell
Sanders -- $tWest of Eden /$rMary Swander -- $tDerivative
Sport in Tornado Alley /$rDavid Foster Wallace -- $tOn Being
out of Control, or How Townships Made Me a Pinko /$rMichael
Wilkerson -- $tIn the First Place of My Life /$rRay A. Young
Bear.
520 1 $a"It would not seem so important for southern
writers to justify writing about the South--that region is
defined. Midwestern writers, however, must first define
their region, inhabit it, so that writing about it through
fiction and poetry will become as natural as it is for
writers in other necks of the national world." "Townships
seeks to prepare the ground for that work, using the very
ground itself as a starting place. Each contributor--the
list includes Carol Bly, Marianne Boruch, Anthony Bukoski,
Amy Clampitt, Susan Dodd, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Galyan,
Joseph Geha, Paul Gruchow, James B. Hall, Susan Hauser, C.
J. Hribal, Ellen Hunnicutt, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Howard Kohn,
Philip Levine, Michael Martone, Susan Neville, Lon Otto,
Michael J. Rosen, Scott Russell Sanders, Mary Swander, David
Foster Wallace, Michael Wilkerson, and Ray A. Young
Bear--has written about his or her specific township of
childhood or a bordered region that defined a first notion
of place in the world. Complementing this diversity in
writer and subject are Raymond Bial's striking and evocative
photographs, a visual essay that echoes the sensibility of
the township with grace and precision." "Townships
establishes the Midwest as an important center of
creativity, a region to be noted for more than corn and
prairie and neat, square patches of land. The reverberations
in sensibility that make their way through these essays
speak to all midwesterners and to all those for whom a sense
of place is a source of inspiration."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCity and town life$zMiddle West.
651 0 $aMiddle West$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aMiddle West$xBiography.
700 1 $aMartone, Michael.
700 1 $aBial, Raymond.
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