The Dream of a Broken Field Dream of a Broken Field

by Diane Glancy

The dream of a broken field is to bear crops. The dream of a broken history is to create meaning, to find among the fragments a way to tell the story of a life. It is this dream that Diane Glancy pursues here, through essays on writing, faith, family, teaching, and retirement. Blending a poet's vision and a storyteller's voice, the result is at once a virtuoso work of creative nonfiction and an exploration of that genre's outer limits by one of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803234813
• ISBN13: 9780803234819
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"