| Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Contributor(s): Long, Priscilla (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820350443 ISBN-13: 9780820350448 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Science | Natural History - Science | Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2016016097 |
| Series: Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.55" W x 8.59" (0.68 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The questions that drive Priscilla Long's Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? These questions look beyond everyday trivialities to ponder the essence of our origins. Using her own story as a touchstone, Long explores our human roots and how they shape who we are today. Her personal history encompasses childhood as an identical twin on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; the turmoil, social change, and music of the 1960s; the suicide of a sister; and a life in art in the Pacific Northwest. Here, memoir extends the threads of the writer's individual and very personal life to science, to history, and to ancestors, both literary and genetic, back to the Neanderthals. Long uses profoundly poetic personal essays to draw larger connections and to ask compelling questions about identity. Framed by four distinctive sections, Fire and Stone transcends genre and evolves into a sweeping elegy on what it means to be human. |
Contributor Bio(s): Long, Priscilla: - PRISCILLA LONG is a Seattle-based writer, writing teacher, and editor. She is the author of Crossing Over: Poems, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, and Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry.Griswold, John: - JOHN GRISWOLD is an assistant professor in the MFA program at McNeese State University and the editor of the McNeese Review. He is the author of the novel A Democracy of Ghosts and of the nonfiction narrative Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana. |