Essentially: Essays
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"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."
ISBN
9781737405139
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Holy Cow! Press
City
Duluth, MN
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In Copyright - US https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
Keywords
essays
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Literature in English, North America
Recommended Citation
Terrill, R. (2022). Essentially: Essays. Holy Cow! Press.
