The heart of all that is : reflections on home / edited by Jim Perlman, Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart, Pamela Mittlefehldt.


Duluth, Minnesota : Holy Cow Press, 2013.
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  • Introduction / Pamela Mittlefehldt — The house made of words / James Cihlar — The home stretch / Karen Lynn Erickson — A home worth remembering / Kathleen Weihe — Corn rows / Morgan Grayce Willow — Thoughts upon returning home to an English spring / Elizabeth Weir — The Stradivarius in the locker / Keith Gunderson — Keep out / Julia Morris Paul — Drawing of my family: age six / Jill Breckenridge — Child with reader / Elisabeth Murawski — In the basement / Molly Sutton Kiefer — Prairie world and wanderer / Margaret Hasse — Prairie sundown, North Dakota / John Sorensen — Hometown / Robin Chapman — Safe / Catherine Abby Hodges — Shelling peas / Penny Harter — Horizon / Cary Waterman — Going home / Rosemary Winslow — Leaving / Emily Ruth Hazel — Relearning home / Heather McGrew — Coming home / Janet Jerve — Brat / Carol Dunbar — Postcard to Ailene from a place in the air / Suzanne Allen — The ghosts of abandoned capacity / David Pichaske — Origins / Andrea Potos — A distant ship tiding home / Bruce Pratt — Displaced person / John Manesis — Portrait without words / Tami Mohamed Brown — Three line bio / Katie Hae Leo — A hundred things / Emily K. Bright — Provenance / Nadine Pinede — Family tree / Linda Nemec Foster — Lands of song / Joseph Bruchac — Looking back / Sarah Brown Weitzman — What holds me / Laura L. Hansen — The portable singer / Penny Perry — Fixing potato salad while the past comes and goes / Sharon Chmielarz — The hot corner / John Azrak — Homesick / Drew Lamm — 720 miles from home / Ellen Shriner — The avid heirs of the farm / Alice Owen Duggan — Paradise lost / Jan Chronister — Former tenants / Dan Campion — Porch lights / J. Patrick Lewis — Back in your old house in Montana / Judith Waller Carroll — The meaning of things / Claudia M. Reder — The heart of the matter / Karen Herseth Wee — Pecans / Connie Wanek — Land Judith Prest — Dear God of H____ / Ethna McKiernan — Chicken Charlie / Fran Markover — Expired stars / Laura Jean — A shelter is not a
  • This engaging anthology on the theme of home includes twenty personal essays and nearly eighty poems from a wide variety of social and cultural perspectives, as unique and diverse as the authors who have written them. Herein is previously uncollected writings by Joseph Bruchac, Jane Yolen, Marge Piercy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Roberta Hill, Mark Vinz, and many others. In a world of increasing change and mobility, these writings explore our most fundamental concerns for self-identity: what is our home, where have we come from, who am I? –Amazon.com, viewed November 4, 2013.

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