Pamela Carter Joern

At the Corner of Past and Future

A Collection of Life Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In these personal essays Pamela Carter Joern explores the intersections of time and place, memory and truth, life and art. This is a book about location and identity, and Joern invites us to join in her quest to unravel the threads that make a life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496242785
• ISBN-10: 1496242785
• Artikelnr.: 70988796

Autorenporträt

Pamela Carter Joern is the author of four works of fiction: Toby’s Last Resort, In Reach, The Plain Sense of Things, and The Floor of the Sky, all published by the University of Nebraska Press. She has written six plays that have been produced in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and taught writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis for ten years.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1. INTERSECTIONS of TIME and PLACE
1. Looking for Direction
2. Forest and Prairie
3. At the Corner of Past and Future
4. Standing in Lines
5. Comforter
6. Salvador Dalí and Me
Part 2: INTERSECTIONS of MEMORY and TRUTH
7. My Earliest Memory
8. Memory Thefts and Transplants
9. In Pursuit of Magic
10. Dr. Silverman and the Kansas City A’s
11. My Mother, the Liar
12. Vaccines
13. Shards
14. Sky
Part 3: INTERSECTIONS of LIFE and ART
15. Carnal Appetites
16. Cathedrals and Cottonwoods
17. Egg Carton Art
18. God Is Not a tv Repairman
19. Because the Poet Died
20. Privilege
21. I Say Unicorns Are Real
22. Souls at White Heat
23. Fatigue
24. A Flying Leap
25. What Is the Meaning of This?
Acknowledgments
Notes