Augury (Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction) - Hardcover
Book 11 of 25: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Series
Synopsis
Fifteen essays deal with life in the southwest on either side of the Mexico-United States border and with the other borderlines in life that are not so readily apparent
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Review
"These often profound essays . . . transform a physical landscape into a mindscape of odd discoveries, haunting juxtapositions, and shifting perceptual boundaries. . . . Garrison is in perfect control of his medium."--"Publishers Weekly"
At its best, as it is here, [the essay] is a kind of ruminative thinking on the page or writing as the reader watches, something akin to Georges Simenon's feat of writing a novel in a Paris bookstore window."--"Chicago Tribune"
"Garrison's thought and language are musical and flowing; he creates connections between sagebrush and Halicarnassus."--"Library Journal"
"The best of these essays . . . offer the rewards of superb short fiction--a juxtaposition of emotional and personal significance with strongly evoked settings."--"Kirkus Reviews"
"Singular observations on a number of topics . . . like John McPhee's resonant explorations, or Russell Baker's eloquent remembrances, Philip Garrison's essays in Augury stand out as luminous exemplars of the form."--"San Diego Union"
"His essays reveal that our searches can be as interesting as our discoveries."--"Rocky Mountain News"
"These are essays in the best tradition of American reflection."--Robert Atwan
""Augury" is proof that the pleasures of reading the essay derive from and deepen the pleasures of reading the world."--Scott Russell Sanders
"At its best, as it is here, [the essay] is a kind of ruminative thinking on the page or writing as the reader watches, something akin to Georges Simenon's feat of writing a novel in a Paris bookstore window."--"Chicago Tribune"
About the Author
Philip Garrison’s books include Waiting for the Earth to Turn Over: Identity and the Late Twentieth-Century American West, The Permit That Never Expires: Migrant Tales from the Ozark Hills and the Mexican Highlands, and Because I Don’t Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life. A professor of English emeritus at Central Washington University, USA, Garrison currently directs the APOYO food and clothing bank, which he founded in 1995, with several members of the Mexicano community.
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