A Year in Place

by W. Scott Olsen

W. Scott Olsen and Bret Lott invited a dozen friends to consider one particular calendar month in the place they call home. The result is A Year in Place, a captivating collection of new writing by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874806739
• ISBN13: 9780874806731
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

As unique as it is captivating

Scott Olsen and Bret Lott invited a dozen of their literary friends to take on particular calendar month in the place they call home and write about it. The results were compiled in A Year In Place and offer a wealth of new writing which is as unique as it is captivating. The individual pieces include Dorothy Barresi's Earthquake Weather (January); Douglas Carlson's Walking and Falling (February); Peggy Shumaker's Black Branches Taking on Snow (March); Naomi Shihab Nye's No Fooling--April in Texas (April); Michael Martone's Racing in Place: 33 Hoosier Haiku (May); Rick Bass' The Green Hours (June); Diane Glancy's A Journal of July (July); Kim Barnes' The Ashes of August (August); Katharine Coles' Running in Place (September); Elizabeth Dodd's Underground (October); John Lane's The Inheritance of Autumn (November); and W.D. Wetherell's Hills Like White Hills (December). Completing this fascinating, highly recommended literary experiment are "Contributor Notes" and "Editor Notes".