Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803238466)

Walt Whitman's meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one's place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes including locales as varied as Walden Pond and Mesa Verde, the mountains of Montana and the coastline of Maine, Great Lakes shorelines and Manhattan on the first day of the war with Iraq.

Rich in "all that retrospection," Postscripts chronicles moments of intimacy and arrival in the natural world while also charting intersections of natural, cultural, and personal history. Whether revisiting the first European settlement in Nova Scotia or seeking out the sites of E. B. White's life and literature, exploring the only old-growth forest in lower Michigan or shifting perceptions at the birth of a granddaughter, Root offers readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history. If the past is prologue, his book suggests, the present is postscript.

Author: Robert Root
ISBN-10: 0803238460
ISBN-13: 9780803238466
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2012
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.18w x 0.47d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2012
Publishers Weekly 07/02/2012 pg. 58