Townships (University of Iowa Press, 1992)
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"It would not seem so important for southern writers to justify writing about the South--that region is defined. Midwestern writers, however, must first define their region, inhabit it, so that writing about it through fiction and poetry will become as natural as it is for writers in other necks of the national world." "Townships seeks to prepare the ground for that work, using the very ground itself as a starting place. Each contributor has written about his or her specific township of childhood or a bordered region that defined a first notion of place in the world. Complementing this diversity in writer and subject are Raymond Bial's striking and evocative photographs, a visual essay that echoes the sensibility of the township with grace and precision."--[book jacket]
Correctionville, Iowa: an introduction - Michael Martone -- - At the edge of town: Duluth, Minn. - Carol Bly -- - The quiet house - Marianne Boruch -- - Water plans - Anthony Bukoski -- - Providence - Amy Clampitt -- - Rummage - Susan Dodd -- - You can't step into the same street twice - Stuart Dybek -- - Bloomington, Indiana in Conrad's light - Deborah Galyan -- - Where I'm from -- - originally - Joseph Geha -- - Rosewood township - Paul Gruchow -- - Jefferson township: the land that made me - James B. Hall -- - When the bough breaks - Susan Hauser -- - The landfill of memory, the landscape of imagination - C.J. Hribal -- - Active voice - Ellen Hunnicutt -- - Townline - Verlyn Klinkenborg -- - Beaver Township, Bay County, Michigan - Howard Kohn -- - Entering poetry - Philip Levine -- - Quake - Susan Neville -- - None of us went back - Lon Otto -- - Township Argo - Michael J. Rosen -- - After the flood - Scott Russell Sanders -- - West of Eden - Mary Swander -- - Derivative sport in tornado alley - David Foster Wallace -- - On being out of control, or how townships made me a pinko - Michael Wilkerson -- - In the first place of my life - Ray A. Young Bear