Mary Swander, Author . Viking Compass $24.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-670-03195-5
This nonfiction memoir of a chronically ill poet who rediscovers her Catholic faith and perceives its healing power reads like a cross between Kathleen Norris and Carlos Castaneda. Swander, an Iowa poet who developed a paralyzing neurological...
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Mary Swander, Author Alfred A. Knopf $14.95 (81p) ISBN 978-0-394-55008-4
In her second volume of verse, Swander presents a moving and highly original series of nine narrative poems about several generations of an American family. Using third-person narration, dialogue and monologues by different family members, the poet...
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Mary Swander, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (84p) ISBN 978-0-679-42984-5
Swander ( Driving the Body Back ) writes with zealous music of Midwestern rural encounters--of keeping company with a goat ``satyrette'' who is due to give birth; of waiting in the cellar for an expected tornado; or simply of noting the endurance of
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Mary Swander, Author Viking Books $20.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-85808-8
The medical condition described as ``environmental illness,'' severe allergies to most pollutants, was the catalyst that forced Swander, a poet from the Midwest, to seek an alternate lifestyle. Happily, she found it in an Amish settlement in Iowa,...
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Mary Swander, Author Penguin Books $14 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-024170-9
Suffering from ""environmental illness,"" poet Swander tells of her move to an Amish settlement where she grew her own food and discovered a spiritual tie to the land. (July)
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