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Book SynopsisWalt Whitman's meditation on time is the undercurrent running through
Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one's place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes to offer readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history.
Trade Review“Root illuminates E. B. White’s ‘Once More to the Lake’ in the same way jazz greats find a musical idea in a standard and make it their own; Root offers a rich and generous account of how a writer is transformed by and can transform great literature.”—Leslie Carol Roberts, author of The Entire Earth and Sky
“This quiet, contemplative, and profound book is a celebration of love of places from one of our best thinkers about love of place.”—David Gessner, author of Return of the Osprey
“In Postscripts Robert Root takes you on a tour of iconic American places; the touch is deft, the conversation deep, and Henry Thoreau and E. B. White, like old friends, seem always in the next room.”—William deBuys, author of A Great Aridness
"Root's thoughtful, leisurely essays provide an intriguing glimpse into the interior life of a scholar and writer deeply engaged not only with the physical world, but with the historical, literary, and emotional worlds that lie alongside it like ghostly photographic double exposures."—
Publisher's Weekly"Through his essays in
Postscripts, Root compels the reader to share his sense of humility in the face of an "enduring and unchangeable natural order.""—Karunesh Tuli,
Foreword ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue: Words in the Wind
(The Green Mountains, Vermont)Part 1.To Think of Time
(The Habitation, Nova Scotia)Part 2.The Pattern of Life Indelible
(Belgrade Lakes, Maine)The Everlastingly Great Look of the Sky
(Walden Pond, Massachusetts)Here is New York (
New York, New York)Part 3.Anasazi
(The Four Corners)Knowing Where You've Been
(The Bitterroot Mountains, Montana)Part 4.Shore Lines
(The Great Lakes)Of Trees and Time
(Warren Woods, Michigan)Part 5.Terra Cognita
(Acadia National Park, Maine)Time and Tide
(Acadia National Park, Maine)Epilogue: Postscript to a Postscript to "The Ring of Time"
(Sarasota, Florida)Select Bibliography
