Perhaps nothing is more complicated than an honest answer to a simple question: "Where do you live?" Most of us respond with our postal address, but we know that where we feel a sense of home isn't necessarily where we pick up the mail. We give our address to describe our city or neighborhood, but
When we say we're home: a quartet of place and memory
โ Scribed by W. Scott Olsen
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 308
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Perhaps nothing is more complicated than an honest answer to a simple question: "Where do you live?" Most of us respond with our postal address, but we know that where we feel a sense of home isn't necessarily where we pick up the mail. We give our address to describe our city or neighborhood, but we know that the truer answer would be a much longer story: the story of where we live now and of all the places we have lived and visited - the story of where we "dwell." When we say we're home explores that more complete and satisfying story of "dwelling" in its larger and distinctly American context: as a complex and subtle interplay between rooted-ness and dislocation. The four essayists in this remarkable quartet reside in disparate geographical locations, and the details of their personal experiences are as varied as their landscapes. Yet in their stories - of raising families, of building and demolishing homes, of leaving husbands and losing parents, of surviving earthquakes and floods, of watching light shift and storms progress across familiar and unfamiliar horizons - we recognize our own histories of arrivals and departures, celebrations and losses. We understand that the possibility of "dwelling" is more than a nostalgic devotion to a single place: it is a daily practice of awareness and participation.
โฆ Table of Contents
When We Say We're Home......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Foreword......Page 5
When We Say We're Home......Page 8
1.......Page 15
2.......Page 16
3.......Page 18
A Desire for Home......Page 20
4.......Page 45
5.......Page 47
Gravity......Page 50
Day Two......Page 61
6.......Page 70
1. Queenstown......Page 73
2. Dunedin......Page 81
7.......Page 90
Motel Mind......Page 94
Part One:โโ Near the Memory of Old Waters......Page 96
Part Two:โโ To South Point......Page 133
South by U.S. 89......Page 134
North by 1-15......Page 141
East by U.S. 191......Page 149
I. รcoma......Page 161
II. Sepulveda......Page 165
III. Ka Lae......Page 171
Map, Landscape, and Story......Page 174
On Your Chosen Site: A Prologue......Page 176
Introduction......Page 184
Part OneโHome on the Range......Page 187
Part TwoโHomeostasis......Page 201
Part ThreeโHome for the Holidays......Page 211
Part FourโHome Is the Sailor......Page 217
Where I Live(d)......Page 225
Where I Live(d): A Meditation on Place, in Parts......Page 227
Familiar Tectonics......Page 240
Writing the Perfect Poet......Page 245
Propositions on a Lost Name of a Street......Page 249
Days Turn into Other Days......Page 258
A Week Passes......Page 260
Two Days Later......Page 262
One Day Later......Page 263
Another Day......Page 264
As the Day Turns (Into Weeks)......Page 265
Taking It Three Days at a Time......Page 266
Where the Hummingbird Sips, There Sip I: An Appreciation......Page 267
Hummingbird at Heart......Page 269
Someone's in the Kitchen with Wendy......Page 275
(Mainly) Middle-Class Suburban (Mostly) White, or Making Sense of Suburbia......Page 287
Souvenirs......Page 297
Autobiography......Page 303
Contributors......Page 305
Acknowledgments......Page 307
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