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Postscripts : Retrospections on Time and Place - Robert Root

Postscripts

Retrospections on Time and Place

By: Robert Root

Paperback | 1 September 2012

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Walt Whitman's meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one's place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes including locales as varied as Walden Pond and Mesa Verde, the mountains of Montana and the coastline of Maine, Great Lakes shorelines and Manhattan on the first day of the war with Iraq.

Rich in "all that retrospection," Postscripts chronicles moments of intimacy and arrival in the natural world while also charting intersections of natural, cultural, and personal history. Whether revisiting the first European settlement in Nova Scotia or seeking out the sites of E. B. White's life and literature, exploring the only old-growth forest in lower Michigan or shifting perceptions at the birth of a granddaughter, Root offers readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history. If the past is prologue, his book suggests, the present is postscript. 

Robert Root is a visiting professor in the MFA program in creative writing at Ashland University and professor emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University. Three of the essays in Postscripts have been cited as Notable Essays in the annual Best American Essays collections. Root's books include Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, both available from the University of Nebraska Press. 

 

Industry Reviews
"Root illuminates E. B. White's "Once More to the Lake" in the same way jazz greats find a musical idea in a standard and make it their own; Root offers a rich and generous account of how a writer is transformed by and can transform great literature." - Leslie Carol Roberts, author of The Entire Earth and Sky "This quiet, contemplative, and profound book is a celebration of love of places from one of our best thinkers about love of place." - David Gessner, author of Return of the Osprey "In Postscripts Robert Root takes you on a tour of iconic American places; the touch is deft, the conversation deep, and Henry Thoreau and E. B. White, like old friends, seem always in the next room." - William deBuys, author of A Great Aridness

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