I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions (repost)
I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions By Louis Owens
Publisher: Uni.ver.sity of Okla.ho.ma Pre.ss 2001 | 265 Pages | ISBN: 0806133546 | PDF | 11 MB
Publisher: Uni.ver.sity of Okla.ho.ma Pre.ss 2001 | 265 Pages | ISBN: 0806133546 | PDF | 11 MB
In each section of this excellent collection, Owens's carefully crafted writing captures the reader with exceptional descriptions of place and people, the mix of native blood in America, and the strength of the individual: "He'd awakened to the river, rising out of sleep the way the winter river rose from its brushy bed, hearing before anything the throbbing of the current under the sand, his eyes opening to the sun caught like blood in the naked branches of the sycamores and cottonwoods out here in the river." In the autobiographical section, Owens (e.g., Dark River) describes his service on a hotshot fire-fighting crew in Arizona and later working at Glacier National Park.