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A collection of essays first published to critical acclaim in 1986, Having Everything Right revolves around the history, folklore, and physical beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Kim Stafford writes poetic and evocative prose as he reflects on such subjects as Indian place names, bears, and local eccentrics. An essay titled "Pine, Fir, Cedar, Yew," begins with Stafford describing his workbench, which he fashioned from scavenged boards, and slowly turns into a beautifully rendered meditation on wood. "Any table of virgin fir, any maple chair, any oak floor is a bundle of stories," Stafford writes, artfully pointing out what most of us would never take time to notice.
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"Having Everything Right" is not just an Indian place name but the summation of a way of living on earth in a spirit of harmony, gratitude, and adventure. Within this patchwork quilt of personal reminiscences and stories are Nez Perce Indian battles, lone treks into the wilderness, the stirring of family myth, and conversations with "outcast eccentrics." A poetic eye to nature and personal biography knit together themes and ideas, which range from the unique fragility of the earth to the breadth and courage of the human spirit. As the essays illustrate, when you have everything right you know at once the limits of materialism and what are the truly good things of earth. This book received a Western States Book Awards Citation for Excellence. Recommended for most collections. Carol J. Lichtenberg, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A collection of essays first published to critical acclaim in 1986, Having Everything Right revolves around the history, folklore, and physical beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Kim Stafford writes poetic and evocative prose as he reflects on such subjects as Indian place names, bears, and local eccentrics. An essay titled "Pine, Fir, Cedar, Yew," begins with Stafford describing his workbench, which he fashioned from scavenged boards, and slowly turns into a beautifully rendered meditation on wood. "Any table of virgin fir, any maple chair, any oak floor is a bundle of stories," Stafford writes, artfully pointing out what most of us would never take time to notice.
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"Having Everything Right" is not just an Indian place name but the summation of a way of living on earth in a spirit of harmony, gratitude, and adventure. Within this patchwork quilt of personal reminiscences and stories are Nez Perce Indian battles, lone treks into the wilderness, the stirring of family myth, and conversations with "outcast eccentrics." A poetic eye to nature and personal biography knit together themes and ideas, which range from the unique fragility of the earth to the breadth and courage of the human spirit. As the essays illustrate, when you have everything right you know at once the limits of materialism and what are the truly good things of earth. This book received a Western States Book Awards Citation for Excellence. Recommended for most collections. Carol J. Lichtenberg, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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THE KWAKIUTL PEOPLE of the Northwest coast had a habit in their naming. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Nez Perce, Camp Polk, North Fork, Five Wounds, Joseph Canyon, Louisa Smith, Miss Sherman, San Francisco, Wallowa County, Acy Deucy, Boone's Ferry Road, Dan Miles, Knowles Creek, Lily Lake, Warm Springs New!
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THE KWAKIUTL PEOPLE of the Northwest coast had a habit in their naming. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
separate hearth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nez Perce, Camp Polk, North Fork, Five Wounds, Joseph Canyon, Louisa Smith, Miss Sherman, San Francisco, Wallowa County, Acy Deucy, Boone's Ferry Road, Dan Miles, Knowles Creek, Lily Lake, Warm Springs New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 20, and page 114
- We Got Here Together by Kim R. Stafford in Front Matter
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South by Walker Evans on page 123
- Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford World's Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer on page 19
- Wind on the Waves by Kim Stafford in Front Matter
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- Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals by Albert Furtwangler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cowboy Poets and Cowboy Poetry by David Stanley on page 30, and Back Matter
- Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education by Bronwyn T Williams on page 144, and Back Matter
- In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford by Kim Stafford in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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