Townships
By: edited by Michael Martone ; photographs by Raymond Bial.
Contributors: Martone, Michael.; Bial, Raymond.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Bur oak original
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: City and town life -- Middle West.; Middle West -- Social life and customs.; Middle West -- Biography.
Description: "It would not seem so important for southern writers to justify writing about the South--that region is defined. Midwestern writers, however, must first define their region, inhabit it, so that writing about it through fiction and poetry will become as natural as it is for writers in other necks of the national world." "Townships seeks to prepare the ground for that work, using the very ground itself as a starting place. Each contributor has written about his or her specific township of childhood or a bordered region that defined a first notion of place in the world. Complementing this diversity in writer and subject are Raymond Bial's striking and evocative photographs, a visual essay that echoes the sensibility of the township with grace and precision."--[book jacket].