This text presents an inquiry into the human condition: an exploration of where we stand in the 20th century, of how we should live and think, of how well and truly we see beyond appearances down to the core of things.

The Clam Lake Papers: A Winter in the North Woods

Lueders, Edward

Harper&Row

Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle...: And Other Modern Verse

Literature & Fiction

Dunning, Stephen

Smith, Hugh (co

Poetry

Scholastic. Inc.

MINOR WEAR ON EDGES OF COVERS. PAGES ARE CLEAN WITH NO WRITING OR MARKS.

The Clam Lake Papers

Religion & Spirituality

Abingdon Pr

Modern poems for young people explore a wide range of subjects and encompass diverse ethnic and cultural traditions

Zero Makes Me Hungry: A Collection of Poems for Today

William Morrow & Co.

Three members of a jazz trio traveling back from India on a troop ship after the end of World War II look back on their lives and experiences

The Wake of the General Bliss

United States

Univ of Utah Pr

Writing Natural History is the edited record of four public dialogues held at the University of Utah in 1988 between eminent writers in the fields of natural history. In these interchanges the writers discussed their traditions, perspectives, values, purposes, techniques, and personal insights. Their conversations, like their work, link the sciences with the humanities in surprising ways, enhancing our understanding and appreciation of both. This volume maintains the vitality of the spoken dialogues and conveys a lively sense of each speaker’s concern with the processes of the natural world and our human position in it. Half of the authors began as professionals in the natural sciences before becoming recognized for their literary skills; the other half are established writers whose works reflect their vital human affinity with and respect for nature. Writing Natural History will appeal to all readers involved in conservation, nature study, creative writing, environmental issues, the natural sciences, the outdoors, and the ecological politics of Earth. Authors dialogues feature Barry Lopez and Edward O. Wilson, Robert Finch and Terry Tempest Williams, Gary Paul Nabhan and Ann Zwinger, Paul Brooks and Edward Lueders.

Writing Natural History: Dialogue with Authors

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

University of Utah Press

Set aboard a ship carrying troops home from India at the end of World War II, Edward Lueders’ autobiographical novel opens with the dramatic events that ensue when the call goes out, 'Man overboard!' As the vessel drifts, engines stopped, in search of the lost man, the story begins to delve deeper into the paradox at the center of our lives, as irreducible isolation is juxtaposed with inevitable coexistence.\nThe ship becomes a complex metaphor for the thousands of men aboard and, by extension, for all of us who exist both as individuals and as parts of the human community. These motifs are developed through the interplay of three men aboard ship, Staff Sgt. LeRoy Warner, Sgt. Mark Reiter, and Sgt. Stanley Norman, who entertain troops as a jazz trio. These GI musicians improvise through solo sections in which each reflects hauntingly on his past and dreams of his future. As they search for meaning beyond subjectivism, beyond suffering and randomness, their music is about the possibilities for harmony.\nAlthough miscues, counterbeats, and dissonance apparently mock our efforts to break out of ourselves, sometimes, however fleetingly, everything falls into place. Then the prose of our lives turns unexpectedly to poetry and we experience an exhilarating unity.

The Wake of the General Bliss: A Novel of World War II

The Clam Lake Papers: A Winter in the North Woods : Introducing the Metaphorical Imperative & Kindred Matters With a Prologue & Epilogue

History & Criticism

William Caxton Ltd

Biographies & Memoirs

Once again cast in the companionable style of journal entries and notes that readers enjoyed in Lueders’s 1977 creative nonfiction classic The Clam Lake Papers, this new investigation into language and ways of knowing follows the author’s move from the north woods of Wisconsin to the Intermountain West of Utah. The Salt Lake Papers is divided into two sections by location and time. Book One reflects the central geophysical presence of the Great Salt Lake, in view from Leuders’s home and the University of Utah campus where he studied and taught. Researched and composed during the 1980s, it is published here for the first time. Book Two begins with his retirement to the “earthscapes” of the Torrey–Capitol Reef area of southern Utah and contemplates the Colorado River system. Hydrology thus provides both the physical and the metaphysical basis for the author’s reflective insights and for the natural flow of his advancing thought. Beautifully written, The Salt Lake Papers, in varied ways, speaks to the necessity of the humanities in the modern age. At its heart, Lueders’s small book of intellectual musings explores place and the ways landscape shapes what is observant in each of us. Hear Ed Lueders talk about his book on Utah Conversations with Ted Capener on KUED

The Salt Lake Papers: From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah

History

Americas

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