The lonely other : a woman watching America / Diana Hume George.

Author/creator George, Diana Hume, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1996.
Descriptionxxii, 252 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCreative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction (Urbana, Ill.) ^A370325
Contents Love lost on the road -- Wounded Chevy at Wounded Knee -- The bear within at Yellowstone -- Losing time at Lamar -- Sex and death at Devil Canyon -- Disrupting the gaze, or how I turned chicken -- Women in the woods -- -- Words you have heard, in a language you might know -- A woman rallying for the road -- The road to St. Mary's -- The beach as nursery -- Coming to my father's house : Anne Sexton's island god -- Preface : wearing a human face -- The lonely other -- Sacred space, igneous privacies -- Mississippi harvesters -- Cactus, poetry, dung beetles, and wild pigs -- Alamogordo and White Sands -- The hermit of omigod hotsprings -- Brain-dead and big-chilled in Southern California -- The history of the world according to Andrew Joseph Picard -- Froot loops in Yosemite -- Thinking toward Georgia -- Dreaming the breasts -- Wounded knee at Bondcliff -- Attitude matters : a woman alone with light -- Blowing in the wind -- Easter morning meditation 1994 -- Through Purgatory to the silence of the lambs -- Seeing mindfulness : a walking meditation -- Postscript.
LCCN 95032488
ISBN0252065344 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E169.O4 G47 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold