Clear Pond
The Reconstruction of a Life
Published on 30. June 1991
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-8156-0257-6 (ISBN)
Description
The winner of the John Ben Snow Prize delves into the life of a 19th-century Adirondack millwright and arrives at a greater awareness of his own reality. Despite having developed patents for a type of sawmill, Israel Johnson was ""no one in particular"", an everyman who died penniless.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
22 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
572 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8156-0257-6 (9780815602576)
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Person
Roger Mitchell was the director of the MFA program at Indiana University. He is the author of nine books of poetry including Lemon Peeled The Moment Before: New and Selected Poems: 1967-2008 and Delicate Bait. His awards include the Midland Poetry Prize, the John Ben Snow Award and the Akron Prize in Poetry.