Magpie Rising

Magpie Rising
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0803271077
ISBN-13 : 9780803271074
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Magpie Rising by : Merrill Gilfillan

Download or read book Magpie Rising written by Merrill Gilfillan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska?s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid?stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled?in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a cafä in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota. These are some of the things that catch Merrill Gilfillan?s eye and ear in this radiant collection of essays. ø Written with a poetic economy that often attains grandeur, Magpie Rising is an exhilarating tour of the Great Plains?its geography, wildlife, history, mythology, and food, its vast spaces and weirdly synchronous time. This is nature writing at its most evocative and insightful.


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