Troubled intimacies
Subtitle: a life in the interior West
By: David Axelrod.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oregon State University Press; Oregon State University
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Corvallis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Axelrod, David, 1958-; College teachers -- Oregon -- Biography.; Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.; Naturalists -- Oregon -- Biography.; Landscape ecology.; Human geography.; Oregon -- Biography.; Oregon -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Having grown up amid the ravaged coalfields of Ohio, David Axelrod felt oddly at home when, twenty years ago, he moved west and saw his first clear-cut forest. In Troubled Intimacies, Axelrod explores his life in the rural interior West and the way in which surroundings, visible and invisible, shape our emotional and intellectual lives." "In describing his life and the lives of his neighbors in eastern Oregon's Grande Ronde Valley, Axelrod raises hard questions about the relationship between humans and the western landscape - a relationship too often predicated on disastrous violence. Axelrod reveals the dissonance that exists between the mythical American West and the far more complex, troubled relations we actually experience as individuals and communities in the western U.S. In these essays, he shows the challenges and rewards of piecing together a meaningful life in the rural West."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Going wild; title: A westward-going heart; title: A habit of mind; title: Sonata of the dwindling year; title: The fidelity of thieves; title: April fools; title: Sane at the mind that makes a nest; title: A rant; title: Healing in; title: Notes on the erotic life of the household; title: Gathering : a calendar; title: Jardin romántico; title: The dimensions of hope; title: Here and now.