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1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) |
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Made in Michigan writers series |
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Made in Michigan writers series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Warming the Flue: The Think House, Empire, Michigan -- Stone Wounds: Mount Cardigan, New Hampshire -- Wild Poem: Mount Rainier, Washington -- Finding Cochise: Cochise Stronghold, Arizona -- The Underpass: Washington DC -- Where Angels Are: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina -- The Blue Bead: El Yunque, Puerto Rico -- Edge of Possibility: Santa Monica, California -- An Elongated Tear: Culebra, Puerto Rico -- Squall: Eleven Mile Canyon, Colorado -- An American Map: New York City |
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The River Inside (A Prose Poem): Huzzah River, MissouriAn Essay of Supposition: Harpswell, Maine -- Finding (My) America: Library Tour, Michigan -- Heart of Sand: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan |
| Summary |
"This title features meditative travel essays by Michigan author Anne-Marie Oomen that explore new landscapes across America. In "An American Map", Anne-Marie Oomen, award-winning writer and self-confessed northern Michigan homebody, chronicles her recent travels across America, in essays that span rediscovered landscapes, wild back roads, vital cities, and everything in between. Oomen takes both a wide and narrow lens to her destinations, giving readers a vivid sense of each locale while finding resonances between each place and her own experiences. With each new adventure, Oomen finds her sense of self deepening and becoming more clearly rooted in the larger adventure of America. The evocative essays of "An American Map" consider locations across the United States, from the poetry of Alpine meadows to the terror of desert border crossings, the irony of ocean floors littered with live ordnance, and the excitement of a rural film premiering in New York City. Oomen's warm, personal voice takes readers into the heart of each experience, as she imagines that a place like the Smoky Mountains could offer insight into the Iraq War or that a decaying war tank could help save rare turtles. Oomen proves that the value of travel is not merely in the physical place but the spiritual or meditative place it allows us to visit at the same time. Fans of Oomen's writing, as well as all readers interested in travel writing, will appreciate the unique insights and diverse landscapes of "An American Map"."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Oomen, Anne-Marie
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Oomen, Anne-Marie -- Travel -- United States
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Oomen, Anne-Marie -- Homes and haunts
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Oomen, Anne-Marie -- Homes and haunts
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Oomen, Anne-Marie -- Travel
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Oomen, Anne-Marie
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Oomen, Anne-Marie fast |
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Authors, American
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Homes
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Travel
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814335291 |
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0814335292 |
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