An Inside Passage

by Caswell, Kurt

• ISBN13: 9780803232143
• ISBN10: 0803232144
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Although finding a way to feel at home in the world is ultimately the life's work of us all, rarely has the search ranged as far or found as precise and moving an expression as it does inAn Inside Passage. Winner of the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Kurt Caswell's narrative chronicles his travels in the rugged mountain forests of Japan's Shiretoko National Park, on a vision quest in Death Valley, and to the sacred waters of the Ganges River. Whether contemplating a great blue heron as it rests riverside at the onset of a storm, reflecting on a beloved student's untimely death, walking through the Navajo reservation, or receiving the blessing of a Hindu priest, Caswell unerringly finds the moment of truth. His journey also takes us across the landscape of his marriage, both its initial sweetness and its eventual failure. The ensuing inner dislocation echoes a larger estrangement that makes more poignant Caswell's quest to find a place he can call home.

Author Biography

Kurt Caswell is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. His essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Isotope, Ninth Letter, Northern Lights, Potomac Review, and Matter.

Table of Contents

California Rental

Five Country Walks

Fawn

The Way to Coss Creek

Letter to a Young Girl at Summers' End

A Horse Builds a Woman in a Storm (A Dream)

A Matter for Heron

The Rescue

Banaue Tercet

Instructions at the Headwaters

The Best Thing about Marriage is Divorce

Wild Man at Iouzan

Mountains Belong to People Who Love Them

Hunger at the Mountain

An Inside Passage

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