Stain the Water Clear: A Collection of Rural Pen and Yankee Doodlin' Columns, 1993-2002iUniverse, 13.01.2003 - 218 Seiten For years, readers of Luanne Austins Rural Pen column in the Daily News-Record have been asking for a compilation of her work. Here it is. Stain the Water Clear is a collection spanning 10 years. Her first Southern Yankee writings focused on the transplanted life of a young woman who had moved from her native New York to the South. Yankee Doodlin' continued on this theme, but expanded to family life, relationships and meditations on life. Finally, the Rural Pen pieces are those of a writer who has found her voice, addressing a range of topics, from politics to religion, to love and womens issues, to meditations on nature and spirituality .The name of the column and this book come from William Blakes Songs of Innocence: And I made a rural pen, And I staind the water clear |
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... moved on to Songs of Experience. “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” Reading Blake's poetry felt like an act of rebellion. But I kept reading because ...
... moved on to Songs of Experience. “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” Reading Blake's poetry felt like an act of rebellion. But I kept reading because ...
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... moved to this hollow. Moving to the country was such a euphoric contemplation—I didn't realize the fears that lay within. Well-meaning friends warned me about snakes—creatures I'd seen only in movies and at the Bronx Zoo. Now I ...
... moved to this hollow. Moving to the country was such a euphoric contemplation—I didn't realize the fears that lay within. Well-meaning friends warned me about snakes—creatures I'd seen only in movies and at the Bronx Zoo. Now I ...
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... moved. Gazing north out my apartment window, crying, I wondered if they'd ever come see me. On my birthday I moped around, imagining they'd all forgotten me. Late that afternoon, a UPS man delivered a package—a copper teapot with ...
... moved. Gazing north out my apartment window, crying, I wondered if they'd ever come see me. On my birthday I moped around, imagining they'd all forgotten me. Late that afternoon, a UPS man delivered a package—a copper teapot with ...
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... moved to Virginia in 1978, buying Italian bread or stone-ground whole-wheat bread meant a trip to Harrisonburg from my apartment in Shenandoah. It was out of necessity that I made an attempt at making a loaf—verily a disgusting ...
... moved to Virginia in 1978, buying Italian bread or stone-ground whole-wheat bread meant a trip to Harrisonburg from my apartment in Shenandoah. It was out of necessity that I made an attempt at making a loaf—verily a disgusting ...
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... moved in, its pale peach flowers and green leaves lined with just a teensy bit of grime. Scrubbing didn't make it go away. After a few months the whole floor was dingy. I tried Murphy's Oil Soap, plain soap, Mr. Clean, Pine Sol ...
... moved in, its pale peach flowers and green leaves lined with just a teensy bit of grime. Scrubbing didn't make it go away. After a few months the whole floor was dingy. I tried Murphy's Oil Soap, plain soap, Mr. Clean, Pine Sol ...
Inhalt
19 | |
Of Humans and Being | 51 |
Christmas | 69 |
Things We Have Passed | 87 |
Am I in Sync? | 113 |
Body Language | 145 |
Through Darkness Up to God | 175 |
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