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Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains - Softcover

Gilfillan, Merrill

 
9780803271074: Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803271077 ISBN 13: 9780803271074
Publisher: Bison Books, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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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Publisher
Bison Books
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0803271077
ISBN 13 
9780803271074
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
194