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On Sacred Ground - The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature (Paperback)
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On Sacred Ground - The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature (Paperback)
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On Sacred Ground explores the literature of the Northwest, the area
that extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, and
from the forty-ninth parallel to the Siskiyou Mountains. The
Northwest exhibits astonishing geographical diversity and yet the
entire bioregion shares a similarity of climate, flora, and fauna.
For Nicholas O'Connell, the effects of nature on everyday Northwest
life carry over to the region's literature. Although Northwest
writers address a number of subjects, the relationship between
people and place proves the dominant one, and that has been true
since the first tribes settled the region and began telling stories
about it, thousands of years ago. Indeed, it is the common thread
linking Chief Seattle to Theodore Roethke, Narscissa Whitman to
Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller to Ivan Doig, Marilynne Robinson
to Jack London, Betty MacDonald to Gary Snyder. Tracing the history
of Pacific Northwest literary works--from Native American myths to
the accounts of explorers and settlers, the effusions of the
romantics, the sharply etched stories of the realists, the mystic
visions of Northwest poets, and the contemporary explosion of
Northwest poetry and prose--O'Connell shows how the most important
contribution of Northwest writers to American literature is their
articulation of a more spiritual human relationship with landscape.
Pacific Northwest writers and storytellers see the Northwest not
just as a source of material wealth but as a spiritual homeland, a
place to lead a rich and fulfilling life within the whole context
of creation. And just as the relationship between people and place
serves as the unifying feature of Northwest literature, so also
does literature itself possess a perhaps unique ability to
transform a landscape into a sacred place.
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