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1) Yellowlegs
Author
Language
English
Description
In Yellowlegs John Janovy again displays his rare talent for making the scientific accessible and the personal universal. The result is a an extraordinary parable of man and technology. It is also an intensely personal account of one man's journey toward an understanding of himself, of his fellow man, and perhaps most important, of the secrets of a single sandpiper, a Tringa flavipes, or lesser yellowlegs.
We fly with Janovy's Yellowlegs from its...
Author
Language
English
Description
Forty-something Judith Whitman, having built a life in Los Angeles as a film editor, mother, and wife of a banker, finds her relationship with her husband in trouble and considers contacting Willy Blunt, a carpenter with whom she fell in love and considered marrying when she was seventeen, but is not sure if it is too late for them.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Kloefkorn is a perfect blend of poet, raconteur, and scholar....Kloefkorn's poetry--perhaps like all poetry--is about the price of wonder. Wonder at nature, wonder at fate, and wonder--finally, luminously--at the miraculous depths and tributaries of the human soul."--Brent Spencer, Nebraska Life.
"Kloefkorn's style comes not only from long attention to the world, but from sustained immersion in the art and craft of language, and from granting himself...
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