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A Place of Sense : Essays in Search of the Midwest Bur Oak Original
author
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Martone, Michael.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877452172
print isbn13
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9780877452171
ebook isbn13
:
9781587291418
language
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English
subject
Middle West--Description and travel, Middle West--Social life and customs.
publication date
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1988
lcc
:
F355.P58 1988eb
ddc
:
977
subject
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Middle West--Description and travel, Middle West--Social life and customs.
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A Place of Sense
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A BUR OAK ORIGINAL
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A Place of Sense
Essays in Search of the Midwest
Edited by Michael Martone
Photographs by David Plowden
The University of Iowa Press for the Iowa Humanities Board
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Text copyright 1988 by the Iowa Humanities Board Photographs copyright 1988 by David Plowden All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1988 Design by Richard Hendel Typesetting by G&S Typesetters, Austin, Texas Printing and binding by Braun-Brumfield, Ann Arbor, Michigan
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A Place of sense: essays in search of the Midwest/edited by Michael Martone; photographs by David Plowden. p. cm.(A Bur oak book) Contents: Under the sign of Wonder Bread and Bel mont Caskets/Michael J. RosenThe flatness/Michael MartoneA writer's sense of place/Louise Erdrich The way the country lies/Douglas BauerAmerican Gothic/David HamiltonIf you can talk to a guy/Jane Staw and Mary SwanderGrandma's backbone, Dougie's ankles/Gary ComstockLetting go: the virtue of vacant ground/Janet Kauffman. ISBN 0-87745-211-3. ISBN 0-87745-217-2 (pbk.) 1. Middle WestDescription and travel. 2. Middle WestSocial life and customs. I. Martone, Michael. II. Iowa Humanities Board. III. Series. F355.P58 1988 88-15058 977dc19 CIP
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Contents
Photographs by David Plowden
following page 86
Under the Sign of Wonder Bread and Belmont Caskets
Michael J. Rosen
1
The Flatness
Michael Martone
29
A Writer's Sense of Place
Louise Erdrich
34
The Way the Country Lies
Douglas Bauer
45
American Gothic
David Hamilton
66
If You Can Talk to a Guy
Jane Staw and Mary Swander
96
Grandma's Backbone, Dougie's Ankles
Gary Comstock
111
Letting Go: The Virtue of Vacant Ground
Janet Kauffman
133
Notes on Contributors
143
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Under the Sign of Wonder Bread and Belmont Caskets
Michael J. Rosen
In January of 1978, I moved to a small island in the West Indies. I had lived in Columbus, Ohio, for twenty-six years and had never left or thought of leaving the country, except for the time in Teen Camp when our bus passed Buffalo, New York, and we visited a nation distinguished solely by the fact that twelve-year-olds could purchase cherry bombs and bottle rockets four days running in order to relinquish them at the American border on the fifth.
Now, for the first time in my life I inhabited a place where weather was cast into two definite seasons, the wet one and the dry one. Beyond those major fronts, no forecasts troubled the airwaves with minor valuations. In the Midwest, thousands of miles north, the local media had made the transition from news-anchor-who-also-watched-weather to certified staff meteorologist, and yet, I could only imagine the weather above the house where I grew up, cast in Magic Markers and Velcro, its seventies ably represented by the drawing of a big umbrella over Mr. Winter's head, or the adhering of fluffy Colorformnot cumulusclouds.
My parent's airmail letters confirmed this quaintness. Quite possibly their handwritings' ingenuousness embodied it. In truth, I had never read anything my parents had written besides phone messages or please-excuse-Michael-from... notes. My father wrote
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on memos from his office; my mother, on tissue-weight stationery she must have had printed just to write to me. Yet the contents of their letters converged into a reading of weather and its sidekick, health, as it influenced the local population. Perhaps they assumed it would only make me miss them more were they to report on anything other than the grayish winter in Columbus.
Every part of my lush and arid, foreign surroundings estranged me from the mild suburban life with which I'd been familiar. In the slant of my parents' shy but jocular sentences, Columbus sounded unexceptional and staid. Yet when I told stories from my years in Columbus I detected a different cant, at least in the responses of new friends. Apparently the modest Midwest and my parents as its forecasters, legislators, and developers teetered between an unheard-of sincerity and a heartfelt giddiness.
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