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An engaging blend of personal essay and public speculation about our attachments to people and landscape.
Judith Kitchen’s essays are lyrical and affecting meditations on place—those places to which we go back and the bittersweet ones to which we can never return. A Pushcart-prize winning writer and editor, Kitchen writes crystalline prose about the human connection to both built and natural environments. Blended with intelligent speculation on national history and literary legacy, these exquisite pieces contain tender and lucidly detailed homage’s to Fred Astaire’s hands, Kitchen’s aging father, the color blue, and familiar and dreamed-about places.
Judith Kitchen’s essays are lyrical and affecting meditations on place—those places to which we go back and the bittersweet ones to which we can never return. A Pushcart-prize winning writer and editor, Kitchen writes crystalline prose about the human connection to both built and natural environments. Blended with intelligent speculation on national history and literary legacy, these exquisite pieces contain tender and lucidly detailed homage’s to Fred Astaire’s hands, Kitchen’s aging father, the color blue, and familiar and dreamed-about places.
Price: $14.95
Pages: 220
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Publication Date:
01 September 2001
Trim Size: 7.50 X 5.10 in
ISBN: 9781566891219
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
“These lovely pieces flow like reveries (as, indeed, quite a few of them are) and reveal in virtually every case Kitchen’s capacious heart.” —Kirkus
“Judith Kitchen is a gifted writer of immense humanity, grace, and depth. Travel with her, trusting where she takes you. These essays gleam with wisdom and innate poetry.” —Naomi Shihab Nye
“Gliding, as the most fluent and stirring essayists do, . . . Kitchen captures the shimmer of consciousness, the most fascinating place of all.” —Booklist
“A literate reminder that we can journey even more deeply into the mind and the heart than we can across the globe.” —Albert Goldbarth
“Judith Kitchen is a gifted writer of immense humanity, grace, and depth. Travel with her, trusting where she takes you. These essays gleam with wisdom and innate poetry.” —Naomi Shihab Nye
“Gliding, as the most fluent and stirring essayists do, . . . Kitchen captures the shimmer of consciousness, the most fascinating place of all.” —Booklist
“A literate reminder that we can journey even more deeply into the mind and the heart than we can across the globe.” —Albert Goldbarth
Judith Kitchen (1941-2014) was the award-winning author and editor of several works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate. Her work has won the Lillian Fairchild Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and the S. Mariella Gable Award. She has served as judge for the AWP Nonfiction Award, the Pushcart Prize in poetry, the Oregon Book Award, and the Bush Foundation fellowships, among others.