At the Corner of Past and Future

A Collection of Life Stories

Pamela Carter Joern (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4278-5 (ISBN)

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With keen observation and deep reflection, Pamela Carter Joern probes her life. No topic is too small or too sacred, from gutting chickens to GaudÍ’s cathedral. Through a range of experiences-growing up in rural Nebraska, raising children, surviving cancer, becoming a writer-she explores the tenuous link between memory and truth. Joern displays a gift for mining wisdom through surprising connections, juxtaposing her father’s life to the discoveries of Isaac Newton or the writer’s task to the ancient art of alchemy. She weds philosophical insight and spiritual imagination and laces this amalgam with candor and wit, resulting in a work that is engaging, intimate, and illuminating.

Pamela Carter Joern is the author of four works of fiction: Toby’s Last Resort, In Reach, The Plain Sense of Things, and The Floor of the Sky, all published by the University of Nebraska Press. She has written six plays that have been produced in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and taught writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis for ten years.

Introduction

Part 1. INTERSECTIONS of TIME and PLACE

1. Looking for Direction

2. Forest and Prairie

3. At the Corner of Past and Future

4. Standing in Lines

5. Comforter

6. Salvador DalÍ and Me

Part 2: INTERSECTIONS of MEMORY and TRUTH

7. My Earliest Memory

8. Memory Thefts and Transplants

9. In Pursuit of Magic

10. Dr. Silverman and the Kansas City A’s

11. My Mother, the Liar

12. Vaccines

13. Shards

14. Sky

Part 3: INTERSECTIONS of LIFE and ART

15. Carnal Appetites

16. Cathedrals and Cottonwoods

17. Egg Carton Art

18. God Is Not a tv Repairman

19. Because the Poet Died

20. Privilege

21. I Say Unicorns Are Real

22. Souls at White Heat

23. Fatigue

24. A Flying Leap

25. What Is the Meaning of This?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2025
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
ISBN-10	1-4962-4278-5 / 1496242785
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-4278-5 / 9781496242785
Zustand	Neuware