One grand, sweet song / Sam Pickering.

Author/creator Pickering, Sam, 1941-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHuntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2016]
Descriptionxxii, 193 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

Uniform titleEssays. Selections
Contents Small digressions -- This running life -- Books in a garden -- Ya -- Joy -- Lunatic -- Christmas now -- Backwater -- Cold -- Afterword.
Abstract One Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and fields. He wanders over hills and far away--to Caribbean and Canada--but he always returns to the local, to Connecticut and his memories of a Southern childhood. He ponders writing and aging, joy and lunacy. He celebrates family and Christmas. He laughs and tells terrible lies, and jokes. He runs half-marathons, and on a farm in Nova Scotia, he tries to write his Walden. "O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!" Edna St. Vincent Millay once exclaimed. In these pages Pickering embraces his world with great love wrapping it in words and pulling it and the reader unforgettably close. Supplied by publisher.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016015973
ISBN9781680030952 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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