Research Catalog

Title

Peninsula : essays and memoirs from Michigan / edited by Michael Steinberg.

Publication

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Steinberg, Michael, 1940-

Description

xviii, 270 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Michigan > Biography
• Michigan > Civilization
• American literature > Michigan
• Michigan > Literary collections

Contents

• Preface: Peninsula / Robert L. Root, Jr. -- Introduction: Essays and Memoirs from Michigan / Michael Steinberg -- Writing Me / Loraine Anderson -- The American Bakery / Max Apple -- Greetings from Hancock / Alys Culhane -- Building Rivers / Michael Delp -- A Woman Who Looks White / Toi Derricotte -- Homing In / Jack Driscoll -- Getting There from Here / Maureen Dunphy -- Fallout / Nancy Madison Fitzgerald -- Pyramid Point / Nancy Madison Fitzgerald -- Fresh Strawberry Pie / Nancy Madison Fitzgerald -- Detroit / Linda Nemec Foster -- Night Walking / Jim Harrison -- Going Back / Timothy Jeffrey -- Jeremiah and Corinthians / Lawrence Joseph -- Air-Ride Equipped / Margo LaGattuta -- The Big Sneeze / Margo LaGattuta -- St. Mary's Cemetery, Pinckney, Mich / Kathleen Lavey -- The Return / Philip Levine -- The Beatles Forever (The Day John Lennon Died) / M. L. Liebler -- Tract / Thomas Lynch -- "Bearing the Farm Away": Some Notes on Owl Calls / Daniel Minock --
• Meeting the Bear / Judith Minty -- First Gods / Anne-Marie Oomen -- Heilmann: A Memoir / Lawrence Pike -- Downshifting / Mary Elizabeth Pope -- Okemos, Michigan / Lev Raphael -- Home and Away / Skip Renker -- Waiting for Thoreau / Rebecca Emlinger Roberts -- Pilgrims and Pioneers / Robert L. Root, Jr. -- Spiritual Blueprints for a Log Cabin / Carol Sanford -- A Different Kind of Priest / Marc J. Sheehan -- Lake Michigan Night into Morning / Sue William Silverman -- Dreaming of No Grass / Maureen Stanton -- Dream Expatriate: A Meditation on Memory and Place / Michael Steinberg -- The Dunes, My Father / Kathleen Stocking -- Home: A Partial View / Andrea Stupka -- Tracing the Winter Dunes / Alison Swan -- A Different Reality / Keith Taylor -- Where All the Lights Were Bright / Anca Vlasopolos -- The Bug Beacon / Thomas Watson -- Tern Beach / Kenneth Wylie.

ISBN

0870135449 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00008171

OCLC

• 43390414
• ocm43390414
• SCSB-3861830

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries