Earth Works
by Sanders, Scott RussellFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-02-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary
In the hands of award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive, versatile, and revelatory form of art. Sanders uses the essay as a means to examine his life -- his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his resistance to war, his literary debts, and his feeling for wildness -- and to address such common human questions as What is a good life? How do family and culture shape a person's character? What is our place in nature? In other essays, Sanders tackles hot-button issues such as the destabilization of Earth's climate, the environmental degradation of the planet, the unchecked growth of technology, the mystique of money, and the dangers of globalization. Readers and writers alike will find wisdom and inspiration in Sanders's luminous and thought-provoking prose.
Author Biography
Scott Russell Sanders, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University Bloomington, is author of 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, including A Private History of Awe, Writing from the Center (IUP, 1995), and A Conservationist Manifesto (IUP, 2009). Among his honors are the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, and the Mark Twain Award.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xiii |
| The Singular First Person | p. 1 |
| At Play in the Paradise of Bombs | p. 12 |
| The Men We Carry in Our Minds | p. 26 |
| Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair | p. 31 |
| The Inheritance of Tools | p. 49 |
| Under the Influence | p. 56 |
| Looking at Women | p. 69 |
| Reasons of the Body | p. 81 |
| After the Flood | p. 93 |
| House and Home | p. 101 |
| Staying Put | p. 112 |
| Wayland | p. 128 |
| Letter to a Reader | p. 141 |
| Buckeye | p. 156 |
| The Common Life | p. 162 |
| Voyageurs | p. 178 |
| Mountain Music | p. 192 |
| Wildness | p. 204 |
| Beauty | p. 214 |
| Silence | p. 225 |
| The Force of Spirit | p. 235 |
| The Uses of Muscle | p. 246 |
| A Private History of Awe | p. 253 |
| A Road into Chaos and Old Night | p. 264 |
| Words Addressed to Our Condition Exactly | p. 272 |
| Honoring the Ordinary | p. 284 |
| Speaking for the Land | p. 296 |
| The Mystique of Money | p. 310 |
| Buffalo Eddy | p. 323 |
| Mind in the Forest | p. 333 |
| Notes and Acknowledgments | p. 345 |
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Excerpts
Works serves here as both noun and verb. Like all works of art, my essays are products of Earth, as are you, as am I, and we are able to wonder and sing, to spend our brief time under the sun, only because Earth works miraculously well, providing us a benign habitation in the void of space.Scott Russell Sanders, from the Preface
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