2009 Saint Paul Almanac
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Ah, they say, community is dead, the book is dead, story lies dying.
Not here in Saint Paul. Now in its third year, the Saint Paul Almanac is a unique publication. Its purposes are to preserve individual and community stories, welcome newcomers into Saint Paul s yeasty mixture of communities through writing, and produce what amounts to a collective, communal memory for Saint Paul.
The Saint Paul Almanac offers browsers as well as sit-down-and-read-the-whole-thing-straight-throughers a range of poems, short stories, immigration tales, mild political screeds, essays, memoirs, and calendars of events that hasn t seen its parallel since the subscription omnigatherums of the late nineteenth century: something for everyone, with lessons on community organization and community memory thrown in.
The 368-page annual Almanac solicits and revels in the work of poets; poems are all over the book each year. So are Saint Paul s most prominent writers, Garrison Keillor his limericks grace several month s first pages and Patricia Hampl. So too are baseball fanatics, who contribute essays about the game in Saint Paul; hot rodders; quirky Rangers (the Minnesota term for sturdy northerners from the Mesabi Iron Range); newcomers from Cambodia, Somalia, Mexico, Ethiopia, and the Twin Cities equally exotic distant suburbs. The Almanac regularly celebrates food and coffee in poem and essay (lots of coffee, lots of coffee houses), Saint Paul s Winter Carnival, the discreet charms of winter (this year these include a paen to snowblowing), and moral advice from an excellent Saint Paul mechanic.
The bright particulars of each writer s contribution constitute a textbook case of how to charm and win the trust of readers through attentiveness to one s own tale. Most of the Almanac s selections are excursions into neighborhood, family, or personal history whose pleasurableness lies in their modesty and detail. You can almost hear a child nudging each writer forward: And then what happened? And the contributor tells you. Great reading, then, for the bedside table, the deck, the outdoor coffee house.
The result, as Minnesotans might put it, is not so bad a plucky annual celebrating difference, similarity, wholeness, and weirdness.
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