Land Between the Rivers
Thoughts on Time and Place
Published on 1. October 2024
218 pages
978-1-68475-217-1 (ISBN)
Description
Todd Nelson, a retired educator, builds upon the success of his critically acclaimed debut essay collection, Cold Spelll. In this new compilation, Nelson delves into his Maine experiences, weaving together a series of concise essays. Unlike the traditional focus on specific locations, these essays center around the art of observation. While readers will recognize the Maine setting, the precise locales remain intentionally elusive. The Land Between the Rivers invites readers to explore the act of seeing, fostering a deeper connection with place, language, and storytelling. It encourages us to peer beyond mere appearances and engage in the realm of imagination.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Illustrations
2 BW Illustrations
File size
0,82 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-68475-217-1 (9781684752171)
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Book
12/2024
Down East Books,U.S.
€22.40
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Person
Todd R. Nelson is a writer and educator whose 35-year career in teaching included six years as a school principal. He has been published in The Ellsworth American, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, CreativeMaineMag.com, Taproot, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as on Maine Public Radio. He lives with his family in Penobscot, Maine.
Content
- Intro
- A Note to th eReader
- The Gate
- Flight Aware
- The Sound of Writing
- Thoreauvians I Have Known
- Reports of Nature
- 'Neath the Cover of October Skies
- Writing Is a Bear
- Glasgow Necropolis-Back to the Old Country
- Seeing a World in a Grain of Sand
- Conversation swith My Father
- My Bookshelves, My Self
- Summer Is a Raft
- Ode to Disraeli Gears
- As Poetry Is My Compass
- The Mighty Pen
- Owl Time
- Writer's Block
- The Return o fBackground Sounds
- Taking a Walk with Clark Fitz-Gerald
- Speak, Matryoshka Memory
- The Augurs of Green Man Day
- The Heist: Organized Crime in Penobscot
- In Just Seventh Grade
- My Life in Bicycles
- Snail Mail
- Train Time
- The Man in the Photo
- The Lost Poem
- The New Year Heffalump Count
- How Poetry Ruined My Life
- Junkyard Thoughts
- Now We Are Six-or 16
- The Mummer Motif
- Our Westward Migration
- The Myrmidons Take Ripogenus Dam
- Pool Party
- My Vorpal Blades: My Life in Knives
- Ox Cart Man
- On Seeing
- Once More to the Stream
- A Paean to a Blueberry Season Foretold
- The Christmas Table
- Far and Away
- Reaching the Outer Buoy of Summer
- The Knowledge Redux
- Going Through the Stones
- The Word for World Is Forest
- A Little Leaven
- Great Great Great Grandfather Rutherford and Me
- Typing with America's Sweetheart
- Vernal Pools: A Love Story
- Bird by Bird
- Our Daily Deer
- Whose Woods These Are
- À la recherche des voitures perdu
- Aural Postcards from a Lake in Maine
- A Return to Dunnottar Castle
- When Clotheslines Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
- Mermaids We Have Heard on High
- My Band of Brothers
- Lefty Fourchette, cuisinière
- Putting the Year to Bed
- Where the Unicorns Sing
- Knitting Up the Raveled Sleeve of Care
- The Land Between the Rivers
- About the Author
