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Xylotheque: Essays
Finalist:WILLA Literary Award -Creative Nonfiction (2015)
Combining memoir and nature writing, this book comprises nine essays that represent different seasons and slices of time, not unlike the rings of a tree. No two rings are alike, but each accretes to the next, creating, section by section, a life.
Book Details
- Publisher: Unm Press
- Publish Date: Apr 15th, 2014
- Pages: 168
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.00in - 0.70in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9780826354587
- Categories: • Essays• Essays
About the Author
Renfro, Yelizaveta P.: - Yelizaveta P. Renfro is also the author of the award-winning book of linked short stories A Catalogue of Everything in the World. She lives in Connecticut.
Praise for this book
"Renfro is a master of what we've come to call the lyric essay: nonfiction pieces that find their voice in the borderland between prose and poetry."--Los Angeles Review of Books
"Renfro's essays are profoundly moving, written in a rich, deeply felt voice touched with wistfulness and melancholy that resists sentimentality and is unafraid of the violence that is a significant characteristic of both life and death."--Colorado Review
"Like a root system of a wooded hillside, Renfro's essays are elegantly woven meditations on cultural identity, natural history, coming of age, and death. . . . Here is a memoir that trades self-scrutiny for a broader examination of nature and culture, a lyric voice and perspective that increases our compassion for the world."--Orion
"Xylotheque will demand your careful attention. But it will repay your time and energy many-fold. It is a book you won't quickly forget."--Story Circle Book Reviews
"Renfro isn't afraid to take risks; Xylotheque has an essay for even the most discerning readers."--American Microreviews and Interviews
"Exquisite essays. . . . Five stars!"
--Enchantment