Essentially
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Essentially

Essays

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eBook - ePub

Essentially

Essays

About this book

"This is a book I love."--Bret Lott, author of Jewel and Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life

From a Minnesota book award-winning author, an essay collection that explores what is most essential to him, from the difficult lives of jazz musicians, to trout fishing, to the shifting population and mores of suburbia.

"Here's the thing, " Richard Terrill writes. "There's always the thing, isn't there, and most often, not just one?" Terrill, an award-winning poet and memoirist, asks through this series of wide-ranging, funny, and sometimes gut-punchingly vulnerable essays, what is essential? Maybe trout fishing, the music of Bill Evans, or the whys of dog ownership.Maybe Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, We Chat, a musician's early hearing loss, and spying on the neighbors.Or maybe the coming apocalypse, almost getting lost in the woods, trespassing, town clean-up days, and the reason Miles Davis never listened to his own recordings. At times self-effacing and funny, at times outspoken and provocative, Terrill fixes a clear eye on the contradictions in our present moment. "We're at that point in a journey where you know where you're going, but you don't know where you are, " he writes. "The destination should come anytime now."

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Information

Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781737405139
eBook ISBN
9781737405153
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. I. The World Away
  2. Solstice
  3. The Horn
  4. Yet Again to the Lake
  5. On Hearing/On Listening
  6. The World Away
  7. Trout Fishing: A Manifesto
  8. II.
  9. The Baker Boys: A Fable
  10. Making New from Old
  11. Who Was Bill Evans?
  12. Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953)
  13. Introduction to Film Section One, Tuesday 6-9:35 p.m., Fall Semester, 1996
  14. III. Postscripts to Late Middle Age
  15. Neighbors
  16. Essentially
  17. WeChat
  18. Going to the Dogs
  19. The Vantage
  20. Aunts: A Remembrance
  21. Two Stories
  22. About the Author