Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place

Robert Root

ISBN 10: 0803238460 / ISBN 13: 9780803238466

Published by University of Nebraska Press, 2012

About this Item

Offers readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803238460
• ISBN 13: 9780803238466
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Walt Whitman’s meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one’s place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes including locales as varied as Walden Pond and Mesa Verde, the mountains of Montana and the coastline of Maine, Great Lakes shorelines and Manhattan on the first day of the war with Iraq.

Rich in “all that retrospection,” Postscripts chronicles moments of intimacy and arrival in the natural world while also charting intersections of natural, cultural, and personal history. Whether revisiting the first European settlement in Nova Scotia or seeking out the sites of E. B. White’s life and literature, exploring the only old-growth forest in lower Michigan or shifting perceptions at the birth of a granddaughter, Root offers readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history. If the past is prologue, his book suggests, the present is postscript.
 

 

About the Author

Robert Root is a visiting professor in the MFA program in creative writing at Ashland University and professor emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University. Three of the essays in Postscripts have been cited as Notable Essays in the annual Best American Essays collections. Root’s books include Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and Recovering Ruth: A Biographer’s Tale, both available from the University of Nebraska Press.