After the Fire: A Writer Finds His PlaceU of Minnesota Press - 229 páginas The poet describes how he found his interior landscape on his farm in the hills of Wisconsin and shares his insights into the course of his life, from his Canton, Ohio, youth, to his years as a soldier, to his careers as a writer and publisher, using humor and a meditative spirit. |
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... woods, and the Kickapoo River looping through the valley. Later in the day we were regaled by the sky. There was a brief shower in the afternoon, and when it cleared we walked down the road. We stopped to look back down the ridge and ...
... woods, and the Kickapoo River looping through the valley. Later in the day we were regaled by the sky. There was a brief shower in the afternoon, and when it cleared we walked down the road. We stopped to look back down the ridge and ...
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... woods , a mile from any neighbor , in a house which I had built myself , on the shore of Walden Pond , in Concord , Massachusetts , and earned my liv- ing by the labor of my hands only . " Thoreau was a young man when he wrote Walden ...
... woods , a mile from any neighbor , in a house which I had built myself , on the shore of Walden Pond , in Concord , Massachusetts , and earned my liv- ing by the labor of my hands only . " Thoreau was a young man when he wrote Walden ...
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... woods. Grand thoughts are not nec- essary. The stillness is sublime. Thoreau wrote of the hours of silence around Walden Pond, “I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than work of the hand would have ...
... woods. Grand thoughts are not nec- essary. The stillness is sublime. Thoreau wrote of the hours of silence around Walden Pond, “I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than work of the hand would have ...
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Índice
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Trees | 28 |
Sky | 35 |
Poetry | 40 |
Neighbors | 44 |
Birds | 49 |
Making Poetry | 55 |
Library | 67 |
The Hunt | 109 |
The Blind World | 114 |
Trouble | 134 |
Dogs | 139 |
Old Jazz | 144 |
Young Jazz | 146 |
Winter | 167 |
The Condition of My Faith | 172 |
Insects and Arachnids | 72 |
Grasses Fruits Plants | 76 |
Gardening | 80 |
Coyotes Foxes Wolves | 87 |
Taking a Punch | 90 |
Deer | 107 |
Spring | 189 |
Summer | 193 |
The Catcher | 197 |
Dairy Days | 218 |
Autumn | 227 |
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