Title:
Cabin in the city : essays / John Toren.
ISBN:
9781947237292
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, MN : Nodin Press, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
251 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Cabin in the city. Winter. First ski- just me and the squirrels -- The old Bell Museum -- The barrow's goldeneye -- Pet soup -- The Luminary Loppet -- Northwoods journal -- Cozy north -- Ivory gull- I should care -- Meet my new friend -- A gorgeous thaw -- Snowy owls. Spring. Easter and the pelicans -- The art of the wasted weekend -- Walks in (drizzle) beauty -- Prom night -- Locust petals -- Bicycles and trout -- Puffins stuffed with cake. Summer. Summer solstice reading list -- Stopping to smell the lindens -- Minneapolis walkabout -- The second half of the year -- Come up to the lab -- Shooting the breeze -- Bastille Day on a bicycle -- Eclipse fever -- Twenty-eight tickets -- BWCA idyll -- The boule party -- Morning and evening -- September- washing windows. Fall. Don't knock the equinox! -- Lanesboro encore -- Weekend with vegetables -- The joy of compost -- Halcyon days -- Second summer -- Killing time in St. Paul -- Snow approaches -- Back to the garden -- November- National Poetry Month -- Thanksgiving reflections -- Love of leeks -- Ortega- Lao Tzu -- Darkness and magic and lights -- First snowfall.
Summary:
This collection takes its title from the introductory essay, in which the author describes the house where he and his wife, Hilary, have lived for more than thirty years, near a parkland corridor running for several miles on the western edge of Minneapolis. The essays that follow describe day-to-day events at home―the seasons, the sky, the garden, the passing deer, the trees, the birds, and the sounds of the night―and forays into town to farmers' markets, galleries, parks, and cafe's. A few depict ventures farther afield to the bluff country or the north woods. Books also figure prominently in a few pieces, as do social events and the preparing and eating of food―especially vegetables. It's just one more way of letting the outside in.
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OCLC Number:
on1268278462
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