Title: Only the dance : essays on time and memory /
Authors: Kitchen, Judith.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Kitchen, Judith.; Poets, American Biography
Abstract: "Using the words of others as her wellspring, Kitchen takes us on excursions in time, self, and literature to examine the interconnectiveness of past, present, and future pieces of her life."--BOOK JACKET. "Longer essays form the vertical threads of Kitchen's autobiographical tapestry, reflecting the shape of her identity as daughter, student, wife, teacher, and finally, well-known writer/editor/reviewer. Her quest defies chronology as she traverses a geography of memories in upstate New York, Brazil, New England, Wyoming, and Washington state."--BOOK JACKET. "Shorter essays, laden with personal and political history, trace the horizontal threads of a three-week journey through Scotland, England, and Wales. Extending the spirit of Virginia Woolf and of philosopher Henri Bergson, Kitchen's travels take the reader to destinations where the dimensions of life intersect: past and present, political and personal, literary and literal."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Things of this life, floral clock, Edinburgh, August 2 -- Hide-and-go-seek, Culloden, August 6 -- Robert Jimmy Allen, "Over the sea to Skye," August 9 -- Research, York Minster, August 10 -- Midge, north Yorkshire, August 11 -- Picnic at paradise, Greenhill Gate, August 12 -- Not less because: ways of looking at Wallace Stevens, Haworth, August 13 -- Ten stories, White roads: the landscape of Leslie Norris, Wales, August 15 -- Lists, Salcombe, August 17 -- Transitional, Hardy's cottage, August 19 -- Songs to undo the spring, only the dance.