Name: magpie rising,sketches from the great plains
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Author: Gilfillan, Merrill
ISBN: 9780803271074

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magpie rising,sketches from the great plains

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Physical Book

Author

Merrill Gilfillan

Publisher

Bison

Language

English

Pages

194

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.7 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN

0803271077

ISBN13

9780803271074

Synopsis "magpie rising,sketches from the great plains"

The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska's Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid-stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled-in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a café in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota. These are some of the things that catch Merrill Gilfillan's eye and ear in this radiant collection of essays. Written with a poetic economy that often attains grandeur, Magpie Rising is an exhilarating tour of the Great Plains-its geography, wildlife, history, mythology, and food, its vast spaces and weirdly synchronous time. This is nature writing at its most evocative and insightful. Merrill Gilfillan is the author of a collection of essays titled Chokecherry Places: Essays from the High Plains in addition to two books of short stories and seven books of poetry.

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