Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains - Softcover

Gilfillan, Merrill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679730389 ISBN 13: 9780679730385

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1991

Synopsis

Essays deal with a Kansas farm town, Billy the Kid's stolen tombstone, the cosmology of the Pawnee Indians, the behavior of prairie chickens, and modern life on the Great Plains

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Review

"This is a book to be read as a poet's experiment in prose, slowly and with attention to the language."

"Magpie Rising [is] one of the keenest encounters with the western spaces since Meriwether Lewis's journals."

"Gilfillan is a careful observer of the outward elements of the land--its shapes, its plant life, its birds....His pieces sparkle with invention and insight when he merges the landscape with interior voices of history and myth."

" This is a book to be read as a poet ' s experiment in prose, slowly and with attention to the language. " -- Sue Hubbell, New York Times Book Review .
" Gilfillan is a careful observer of the outward elements of the land -- its shapes, its plant life, its birds. . . . His pieces sparkle with invention and insight when he merges the landscape with interior voices of history and myth. " -- Steve Paul, Kansas City Star .
"This is a book to be read as a poet's experiment in prose, slowly and with attention to the language."--Sue Hubbell, "New York Times Book Review"

Gilfillan is a careful observer of the outward elements of the land its shapes, its plant life, its birds. . . . His pieces sparkle with invention and insight when he merges the landscape with interior voices of history and myth. Steve Paul, Kansas City Star--Steve Paul "Kansas City Star ""

"Gilfillan is a careful observer of the outward elements of the land--its shapes, its plant life, its birds. . . . His pieces sparkle with invention and insight when he merges the landscape with interior voices of history and myth."--Steve Paul, Kansas City Star--Steve Paul "Kansas City Star "

"This is an elliptical collection of essays; they flare with intensity, then wobble and dip as if Gilfillan were breathing in the landscape as he wrote and patches of it's beauty staggered him. Certain passages read like the love letters of a bachelor farmer--unexpected passion rising up in what seemed a barren spot."--Nancy Fay, Southwest Book Views--Nancy Fay "Southwest Book Views "

Review

“This is a book to be read as a poet’s experiment in prose, slowly and with attention to the language.”―Sue Hubbell, New York Times Book Review (New York Times Book Review)

“Gilfillan is a careful observer of the outward elements of the land―its shapes, its plant life, its birds. . . . His pieces sparkle with invention and insight when he merges the landscape with interior voices of history and myth.”―Steve Paul, Kansas City Star (Steve Paul Kansas City Star)

"This is an elliptical collection of essays; they flare with intensity, then wobble and dip as if Gilfillan were breathing in the landscape as he wrote and patches of it's beauty staggered him. Certain passages read like the love letters of a bachelor farmer―unexpected passion rising up in what seemed a barren spot."―Nancy Fay, Southwest Book Views (Nancy Fay Southwest Book Views)

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679730389
• ISBN 13: 9780679730385
• Binding: Paperback