Authors: Kathleen Norris
ISBN-13: 9780618127245, ISBN-10: 0618127240
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: April 2001
Edition: 1ST MARINE
Kathleen Norris is the author of two books of poetry, Falling Off (1971) and The Middle of the World (1981) and has received awards from the Guggenheim and Bush foundations. She lives in Lemmon, South Dakota, with her husband.
"A book of stories, a book of prayer, a book to be read meditatively and well," DAKOTA offers a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth. From the award-winning author of AMAZING GRACE, DAKOTA is Kathleen Norris at her most thoughtful, her most discerning, her best. She gives us, once again, a rare "gift of hope and balance, a place to begin" (Chicago Tribune) and assurance that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography.
A native of South Dakota, Norris maps the cultural and spiritual landscape of life on the High Plains. (Sept.)
The Beautiful Places | 1 | |
Weather Report: January 17 | 13 | |
Deserts | 14 | |
Weather Report: February 10 | 25 | |
Dakota: Or, Gambling, Garbage, and the New Ghost Dance | 26 | |
Patagonia | 39 | |
A Starfish in Mott | 42 | |
Weather Report: March 25 | 44 | |
Gatsby on the Plains | 45 | |
Weather Report: April 14 | 65 | |
Closed In | 66 | |
The Holy Use of Gossip | 69 | |
Weather Report: May 19 | 78 | |
Can You Tell The Truth in a Small Town? | 79 | |
Weather Report: June 30 | 89 | |
Ghosts: A History | 90 | |
Evidence of Failure | 102 | |
Shadows 'n' Owls: A Message from Jim Sullivan | 104 | |
Cana | 105 | |
Where I Am | 107 | |
Star-Time | 124 | |
Frontier | 126 | |
How I Came to Drink My Grandmother's Piano | 135 | |
Status: Or, Should Farmers Read Plato? | 136 | |
Weather Report: July 3 | 142 | |
Rain | 143 | |
Sea Change | 145 | |
God Is in the Details: Shortgrass | 154 | |
Seeing | 155 | |
Weather Report: August 9 | 159 | |
Getting to Hope | 160 | |
In the Open | 177 | |
Blessing | 180 | |
Weather Report: September 3 | 182 | |
My Monasticism | 183 | |
God Is in the Details: Winter Wheat | 188 | |
Weather Report: October 2 | 189 | |
Is It You, Again? | 191 | |
Weather Report: November 2 | 204 | |
Dust | 205 | |
Monks at Play | 207 | |
Blue | 218 | |
Weather Report: December 4 | 219 | |
Weather Report: December 7 | 220 | |
Acknowledgments | 221 | |
Notes | 223 |