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Borne on Air
Essays by Idaho Writers |
| Edited by Mary Clearman Blew and Phil Druker |
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Nonfiction / Essays
6 x 9, 280 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-59766-041-9
paper: $15.95 $8.00 |
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Brandon Schrand was awarded a Pushcart Prize for “Eleven Ways to Consider Air,” his contribution to this collection.
The Greeks divided the world into four constituent elements: water, fire, air, and earth. The third in a series of essays by Idaho writers, Borne on Air joins company with Forged in Fire ( University of Oklahoma Press, 2006) and Written on Water ( University of Idaho Press, 2003) to remind us what can happen when the craft of fine writing meets the wild beauty of nature. For Borne on Air, some of Idaho’s best-loved writers were challenged to describe their personal relationship with the element that surrounds and sustains us.
Many of the essays (and one poem) collected in this volume are set in Idaho, with its vast wilderness areas of mountains and forests, where the clear air purifies our bodies and carries warnings of approaching weather and spirits close at hand. |
The writers gathered here—among them Kim Barnes, Claire Davis, William Johnson, Buddy Levy, Joy Passanante, William Studebaker, and Robert Wrigley—variously haunt us with the whisper of ghosts, electrify us with storms, and terrify us with experiences of near-drowning, when our lungs scream for breath. Together, their reflections spark a new appreciation of how the human soul responds to the invisible power of the atmosphere. |
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| Mary Clearman Blew is the author, most recently, of Jackalope Dreams (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), winner of the 2009 Western Heritage Award. Her many publications include Balsam Root, All But the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family, Lambing Out and Other Stories, and Sister Coyote: Montana Stories. All But the Waltz won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, as did her short fiction collection, Runaway. She teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho. |
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| Phil Druker teaches writing at the University of
Idaho and writes occasional columns for the Lewiston
Tribune’s Outdoor page. He is currently at work on a
book about his travels in the Tibetan regions of Nepal. |
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| This book is sponsored by the Idaho Humanities Council. |
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