| Author: | Paul Christensen | ISBN: | 9781609400811 |
| Publisher: | Wings Press | Publication: | May 28, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Wings Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Paul Christensen |
| ISBN: | 9781609400811 |
| Publisher: | Wings Press |
| Publication: | May 28, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Wings Press |
| Language: | English |
Weaving a fascinating dialogue between the Old World as represented by Provence and the New World of the postmodern American university, this memoir describes in finely wrought detail a poet and critic of literary postmodernism moving his family to France and experiencing village life. Stories of amazing adjustments to a wildly different world are etched in beautiful prose, reading like a quest novel, a precise travelogue, an intense discourse on the visionary arts, and a rediscovery-if not reinvention-of the self as this contemporary American intellectual finds enlightenment in exile.
Weaving a fascinating dialogue between the Old World as represented by Provence and the New World of the postmodern American university, this memoir describes in finely wrought detail a poet and critic of literary postmodernism moving his family to France and experiencing village life. Stories of amazing adjustments to a wildly different world are etched in beautiful prose, reading like a quest novel, a precise travelogue, an intense discourse on the visionary arts, and a rediscovery-if not reinvention-of the self as this contemporary American intellectual finds enlightenment in exile.
